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On Learning and Unlearning Repertoires of Gender Embodiment
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Migdalek, Jack – Gender and Education, 2021
This paper concerns physicality and the tendency to operate within bounds of familiar repertoires of embodiment. It questions the degree to which habitual ways in which we pose, repose, and action our bodies are authentic as opposed to constructed artifacts of our enculturation. With reference to notions of 'neutrality' as raised in Lecoq training…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Well Being, Social Attitudes, Femininity
Men's Experiences in Short-Term Study Abroad: Masculinity, Temporality, and Vulnerability
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Simpson, Jeff J.; Bailey, Lucy E. – Gender and Education, 2021
This manuscript draws from a naturalistic participant-observation study, focused on Midwestern United States men's experiences in a short-term study abroad (STSA) programme in Spain, exploring gendered performances during the course. As global student engagement in study abroad programming continues to increase, gender demographics remains…
Descriptors: Males, Study Abroad, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
Framing and Classifying the Theoretical and Practical Divide: How Young Men's Positions in Vocational Education are Produced and Reproduced
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Niemi, Anna-Maija; Rosvall, Per-Åke – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
Research material from ethnographic studies of vocational upper secondary educational programmes in Finland and Sweden presented here indicates that the discourse of schoolwork as being either theoretical or practical is firmly fixed. However, the students on the researched programmes were aware of recent changes in the labour market that raise a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Males, Vocational Education
Gender Discrimination as a Function of Stereotypic and Counterstereotypic Behavior: A Cross-Cultural Study.
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Lobel, Thalma E.; Mashraki-Pedhatzur, Sharon; Mantzur, Ahmed; Libby, Sharon – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 2000
Investigated seventh graders' gender discrimination from a cross-cultural perspective. Israeli Arabs and Jews rated two hypothetical male candidates for class representative (who were generally masculine or outstandingly feminine) on their beliefs about their ability to be elected and their willingness to interact with them. Both groups…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Femininity, Foreign Countries
Children's Gender-Related Inferences and Judgments: A Cross-Cultural Study.
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Lobel, Thalma E.; Gruber, Reut; Govrin, Nurit; Mashraki-Pedhatzur, Sharon – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Compared gender-related inferences and judgments of third and fifth graders from Taiwan (a traditional collectivistic culture), and Israel (a less traditional modern culture). Found that Taiwanese children distinguished more than did Israeli children between male targets in stories behaving stereotypically and counterstereotypically. Interpreted…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Comparative Analysis
The Promise of Post-Structuralist Methodology: Ethnographic Representation of Education and Masculinity
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Popoviciu, Liviu; Haywood, Chris; Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin – Ethnography and Education, 2006
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable explosion of knowledges across the academy, media and political discourse, generating a wide range of representations of men and masculinity. In this paper, we interrogate the failure for an accompanying understanding of the epistemological and methodological implications of the research process in this…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Ethnography, Cultural Differences, Males