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Clegg, Sue; Trayhurn, Deborah; Johnson, Andrea – Higher Education, 2000
Reports findings from a case study of men and women taking information technology courses in one university in the United Kingdom. Observations of the coaching styles of male and female tutors in computer laboratories indicated that there were significant gender differences in coaching styles and student responses to coaching styles. Peer…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Females
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Grant, Carl A.; Wieczorek, Kim – Teachers College Record, 2000
Considers the missing elements of race, class, gender, and power relations in the knowledge base for teacher education, suggesting a knowledge base for the missing ideas, especially in the area of questioning the effects of social, cultural, and historical movements and power relationships. The concept of social mooring is applied to make…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Gender Issues
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Tsai, Meng-Jung – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2002
This study of Taiwanese eight graders investigated the impacts of strategic learning, cooperative learning, and their combination on junior high school students' computer achievement, attitudes, and anxiety. Highlights include the interaction between gender and learning context; higher computer anxiety among boys; and the role of the culture of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
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Baxter, J. H.; Preece, Peter F. W. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1999
Compares a multimedia package for teaching about the phases of the moon to grade 8 (12-year-old) students with a conventional three-dimensional modeling approach. Results show both methods were equally effective in terms of student learning, for male and female students, and prior computer experience was not a factor in multimedia use. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Astronomy, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes
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Brosnan, Mark J. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1998
A survey of 119 undergraduate psychology students investigated the gender-related effects of masculinity, femininity, and perceiving technology to be masculinized upon computer anxiety in addition to the effect of significant others who use computers and the introducer of the technology. Examines the extent to which computer anxiety in teachers…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education
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Roskelly, Hephzibah – International Schools Journal, 2001
Asserts that teachers find it hard to accept that cultural and political stereotyping does shape their teaching strategies and behaviors. Describes several studies of American schools that indicate that education remains sexist. States that, in teaching literature in particular, teachers must ensure there is a balance of writings by men and women,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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Bird, Sharon R.; Sapp, Stephen G.; Lee, Motoko Y. – Rural Sociology, 2001
Supporting a "structural relational" view of small business success, data from 423 small business owners in Iowa suggest that links between owner characteristics, social relational processes, business structure, and success operate differently depending on urban-rural location and owner sex. Female owners had more professional training…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Females, Gender Issues, Human Capital
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Blake, Susan M.; Amaro, Hortensia; Schwartz, Pamela M.; Flinchbaugh, Laura J. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2001
Reviews evidence of the effectiveness of traditional alcohol, tobacco, and drug use prevention approaches with girls and with boys, as well as available evidence from gender-specific or gender-informed interventions focused specifically on girls. Recommends needed research and prevention strategies that take gender into account. (Author/DLH)
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Drinking
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Capraro, Rocco L. – New Directions for Student Services, 2004
This chapter surveys the history and theory of men's studies, a field concerned primarily with masculinity and other aspects of men's experience and identity. It argues that men's studies would be an ideal foundation for our work with college men and offers guidelines for programs for men.
Descriptors: Student Development, Masculinity, Males, Sexual Identity
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Davis, Tracy L. – New Directions for Student Services, 2004
This chapter presents several strategies for teaching about sex and gender using entertainment media and explores critical issues related to content development, the delivery process, and evaluation methods.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods, Mass Media Effects, Delivery Systems
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Foubert, John D.; Cowell, Edwin A. – NASPA Journal, 2004
The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to determine fraternity men and student athletes' perceptions of a commonly used rape-prevention program. Participants saw "The Men's Program" and then participated in 60-90 minute focus groups assessing whether their attitudes and behavior would change, what about the program led to that change, and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Fraternities, Males, Athletes
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DiGrazia, Jennifer; Boucher, Michel – Composition Studies, 2005
In an experimental writing course we taught at a northeastern state university, we explored "queer" and "writing," hoping to discover what students could create by merging these terms. How might queer theory help students use writing to reimagine and rearticulate various identity categories in ways that allowed them to reconfigure the mental map…
Descriptors: Interviews, Student Projects, Classroom Environment, Writing Instruction
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Bradley, Deborah – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2005
"Music and the Racial Imagination" triggered the reminiscences from the author's teens described in the "diary presented in this article." These memories undoubtedly played a role in her decision to enter an undergraduate music education program at the age of 40. These and other memories have been called up in a variety of contexts more recently…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Influence, Racial Factors
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Ferguson-Pabst, Donna; Persichitte, Kay; Lohr, Linda; Pearman, Betsy – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2003
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between gender, grade level, teachers, and the selection of mathematics software as measured by the type of mathematics software chosen, and time-on-task. Research data were collected from 202 third, fourth, and fifth grade students in a single elementary school located in northeastern…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Computer Software Selection, Mathematics Education, Gender Issues
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Gilbert, Lucia Albino; Rader, Jill – Counseling Psychologist, 2002
Gender theories provide a critical framework for considerations of heterosexual identity. Patriarchal power rests on the social meanings given to biological sex differences and to their reproduction as societal discourses regarding what it means to be a woman or a man. This is a crucial point and one that we believe is not fully recognized in the…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity, Social Environment
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