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Cade, Al R., Jr.; Payne, Gloria J. – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the psycho-social factors (attitudes, identity, and perceptions) affecting pre-service teacher education majors in a cross-cultural pedagogical environment (African American professors and white students). The two main objectives that was explored in this study consisted of; (1) student learning and factors…
Descriptors: White Students, Ethnicity, Preservice Teacher Education, African American Teachers
Grayson, Dolores A. – 2003
This paper presents the results of efforts focusing on equitable practices in education in three states. The paper has three objectives: (1) to provide an overview of the implementation of equitable instructional strategies designed to increase student achievement and close identified performance gaps between and within traditional underserved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Educational Discrimination, Educational Opportunities
Hagedorn, Linda Serra; Laden, Berta Vigil – 2001
This paper presents results of a study that examined the current climate for female community college faculty. Two decades ago, Hall and Sandler coined the phrase "chilly climate" symbolically to embody a pervasive and negative climate reported by girls and women in their educational surroundings. Research literature continues to report on the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Diversity (Faculty), Educational Environment
Chang, June C. – 2002
Over the next ten years, the United States will need to train an additional 1.9 million workers in the sciences. Increased participation of women and minorities is essential in meeting the projected need for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering (SME) workers. Women, who received 56% of B.A.'s overall, comprised 37% of the SME bachelor degrees…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Engineering, Ethnic Groups
Kindler, Heinz; Grossmann, Karin – 1997
A supportive father as well as a supportive mother may foster offspring's healthy development. But what the behavior of a supportive parent looks like may in part depend upon whether the parent is a mother or a father. From the beginnings of empirical research on fathers, the father's role in traditional western families has been conceptualized as…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Child Rearing, Coping
Day, Randal D. – 1998
Noting that the research literature about father involvement is expanding at an exponential rate, this paper explores seminal ideas about father involvement in families. The paper is presented in three parts. The first part provides an overview of the emerging research on social fatherhood. This part traces the changes in the concept of fatherhood…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Context Effect, Cultural Influences, Family Relationship
Wiltse, Lynne – 2001
This study considered the sociocultural nature of learning for students in a multicultural classroom setting, specifically investigating student-student and student-teacher relationships in a junior high classroom using a "community of practice" perspective. This framework was chosen to determine what contribution a community of practice…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Student)
Evans, Susan; Madigan, Jennifer – 2002
This final report provides findings of a qualitative study of characteristics of Latina high school students with learning disabilities in the context of use of single sex environments to encourage school continuance for this population. Specifically, the study examined whether there are measurable differences in classroom behaviors, school…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Females, Gender Issues, Hispanic American Students
Williams, Howard – 2001
This paper describes issues, experiences, and strategies used in developing successful multisectoral partnerships to advance girls' education, using Guinea and Morocco as examples. Chapter 1 introduces the issue, discussing barriers to girls' education and describing the multisectoral response to interrelated barriers. Chapter 2 defines the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Rodriguez, Tomas D. – 2002
This study used data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, which consists of a two-wave panel of approximately 2,500 second generation students in Florida's Dade County public schools, to investigate the impact of non-immigrant/involuntary minority enrollment in second generation Hispanic students' academic achievement. Students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cubans, Educational Environment, Gender Issues
VanEvery, C. Darlene – 1999
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a personal growth support group on the personal effectiveness (or "self-efficacy") of a small group of returning female community college students. Those who participated in the study were women over the age of 25 who were attending college for the first time or were returning to college…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Behavior Development, Community Colleges, Empowerment
Weiler, Jeanne Drysdale – 2000
This book examines the variations in the constitution of female gender in a group of young working-class women of African American, Latina, Puerto Rican, and White European backgrounds who were enrolled in an alternative high school for students at risk of academic failure. It also analyzes the school processes that shape these young women's…
Descriptors: Black Students, Females, Gender Issues, High Risk Students
Spanier, Bonnie B.; Rosser, Sue V.; Muzio, Joseph N.; Tucker, Edward B. – 1997
This collection of four essays examines the ways in which biology, as a discipline, reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. In "Natural Sciences: Molecular Biology," Bonnie B. Spanier examines common ideological distortions in biology, including superimposing stereotypical gender attributes…
Descriptors: Biology, College Curriculum, College Instruction, Engineering
Madden, Margaret E.; Russo, Nancy Felipe – 1997
This essay examines the ways in which psychology, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field. Noting that feminist psychologists have challenged the assumption that psychological science is value-free, it cites ways in which values have affected psychological theory and method. The view that men's behavior is…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Females

Lee, Kar-Tin – Computers & Education, 1997
An Australian study of 100 computer using secondary school teachers investigated gender issues in educational computing (physical, environmental, social, and human resource problems and teacher perceptions of collegial help and self-knowledge). The study found that, though barriers to computer integration are fewer, some remain: lack of access,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Collegiality, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education