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Rahimi, Regina; Liston, Delores D. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2009
When examining the experiences of adolescent girls, a study into the presumptions teachers have regarding female adolescent sexuality is a very important aspect to explore. This article presents the findings from a study we conducted with eleven middle- and high school teachers in a southeastern state from both rural and urban districts. In-depth…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Females, Adolescents, Sexuality
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Jaschok, Maria; Chan, Hau Ming Vicky – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
The essay investigates the place of religious and secular education in the lives of Chinese Muslim women. Education is treated as a site where state and society are reproduced and/or challenged, where tensions arise over control of minds and bodies, and over interpretations and uses of religion and culture. Specifically, the essay compares…
Descriptors: Muslims, Females, Islam, Foreign Countries
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Hunn, Vanessa Lynn; Craig, Carlton David – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2009
The authors discuss depression in African American women from a sociocultural perspective, including aspects of oppression and racism that affect symptom manifestation. The authors highlight John Henryism as a coping mechanism, the history and continuing role of the African American church as a safe haven, and strategies for culturally competent…
Descriptors: African Americans, Sociocultural Patterns, Females, Depression (Psychology)
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Oliver, Kimberly L.; Hamzeh, Manal; McCaughtry, Nate – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2009
Drawing on feminist, poststructural, and critical theories, the purpose of this research was to understand 5th-grade girls' self-identified barriers to physical activity and work with them to find ways of negotiating those barriers in order to increase their physical activity opportunities. We worked with 11 girls in two elementary schools in…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Females, Physical Activity Level, Grade 5
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Keddie, Amanda – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2009
Since the 1970s many feminists working for gender justice in education have highlighted the predominance and seriousness of sexual harassment in schools and condemned the enduring trivialization of such behaviours. This paper develops this body of work by focusing on how issues of sexual harassment are located within prevailing contemporary…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Females, Foreign Countries, Males
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Tracy, Paul E.; Kempf-Leonard, Kimberly; Abramoske-James, Stephanie – Crime & Delinquency, 2009
This article traces the historical coverage of the gender issue in the criminological literature. It also provides contemporary empirical evidence about differences and similarities between girls and boys with respect to juvenile crime and to processing by the juvenile justice system, by analyzing several national juvenile crime data series, all…
Descriptors: Juvenile Courts, Juvenile Justice, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
Yoon, Irene H. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation investigates how the intersections of race, class, and gender operate in the everyday teaching and professional norms of middle-class White women teachers--particularly in schools such as the one in this study, where a majority of middle-class, White women teachers serve predominantly low-income, racially and ethnically diverse…
Descriptors: Jews, Women Faculty, Females, Whites
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Mberu, Blessing Uchenna – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007
Data on 7,632 households from the 1999 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey are used to examine household structure and living conditions in Nigeria. The study finds significant disadvantage in living conditions of single-adult, female- and single-adult, male-headed households relative to two-parent households. Extended households show no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Structure, Family (Sociological Unit), Poverty
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Griffin, Penny – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This article examines the World Bank's discourse of neoliberalism with a view to understanding how this informs and sustains the Bank's policies and practices in particularly gendered ways. "Neoliberalism" is, here, a discursive structure that constitutes a powerful and pervasive contemporary model of economic development, resting on assumptions…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Discourse Analysis, Sexual Identity, Banking
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Hales, Jennifer – Convergence, 2007
The picture the World Bank paints of the world is an optimistic one: living standards are higher than ever before, humanity is progressing, and situations for women are improving. If this is really the case, why then does "the impoverishment of hundreds of millions of people" throughout the world continue? (Chossudovsky 1997, 33). Why do "the…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Females, Economically Disadvantaged, Living Standards
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Hyde, Wendy – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2007
This article discusses, contextualises and locates in contemporary theory, an autobiographical case study of an artist-teacher in the "learning community" of a Sixth Form College art department. It reflects on the educational potential of enabling teachers of art and their students to investigate issues of culture and identity through engaging…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Case Studies, Gender Issues
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Wright, Caroline Vaile; Fitzgerald, Louise F. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine primary appraisal of sexual harassment, that is, a victim's cognitive evaluation of the harassment and the factors that influence this appraisal. The perspectives of 72 female plaintiffs were investigated by measuring their primary appraisal of the event, examining the structure of this appraisal, and…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Multivariate Analysis, Gender Issues, Sexual Harassment
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Carson, Susan; Chandler, Susanne; Collins, Elaine C.; Snow, Debbie; Williams, Jerri-Lynn – International Education Studies, 2010
This article shares and examines the challenges, findings, and lessons learned associated with embracing peaceful leadership styles during the first two years of a partnership between a failing K-12 urban school district and a university in the United States. The ongoing daily leadership issues that influenced, but were beyond the scope of, the…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Partnerships in Education, Peace, College School Cooperation
Day, Kathryn Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined conceptions of the right to literacy in children, adolescents, and young adults living in rural Zulu villages in the mountains of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, as one instantiation of the development of conceptions of human rights in a developing world setting. Of human rights, literacy was chosen because of its familiarity to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Population, Childrens Rights
Gopalakrishnan, Ambika – SAGE Publications (CA), 2010
Written in an engaging style, this comprehensive text prepares K-12 teachers to address a wide range of contemporary social issues--such as violence, gender, war, terrorism, child labor, censorship, and disabilities--through multicultural children's literature. Each chapter includes sample lessons plans designed to encourage critical and creative…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Terrorism, Child Labor, Sexuality
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