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Ainur Issabek; Wilk Oliveira; Juho Hamari; Andrey Bogdanchikov – Smart Learning Environments, 2025
In recent years, gamification gained widespread adoption in education aiming to increase students' positive experiences (e.g., motivation, engagement, and flow state). However, the results of using gamification in education are still contradictory, challenging the community to comprehend the influence of individual factors on learners' experiences…
Descriptors: Gamification, Tests, Demography, Attention
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Monica Nelson – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
The differences in strength development processes and maximum strength levels between cisgender men and women -- i.e. the 'strength gap' -- are considerably fraught topics, with significant implications for our broader understandings of sex and gender. The polarization of exercise science and sociocultural research about the relationships between…
Descriptors: Muscular Strength, Gender Differences, Training, Human Body
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Anne Schmitt; Matthew Atencio; Margo Curschellas – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
The provision of sports opportunities for youths in schools has expanded beyond traditional competitive offerings, with activities such as skateboarding and surfing now considered important avenues for youth development. This trend follows the recent expansion of action or 'lifestyle' sports provision into various community and educational…
Descriptors: Sex, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Athletics
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Suneal Kolluri – Urban Education, 2025
Young Black and Latino men face profound academic obstacles in transitioning to college. Few studies have interrogated college readiness practices in urban schools through the lens of masculinity. Drawing on a yearlong ethnography, this study investigated how young men respond to college-readiness practices while enacting masculinity. Many young…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Noncollege Bound Students, African American Students, Latin Americans
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Garth Stahl; Sarah McDonald – Educational Review, 2025
In all levels of schooling there exist disparities in terms of class and gender. The research presented in this article contributes to the study of how gender, class and curriculum influence the aspirations of students who are the first-in-family to attend university. Drawing on a study of 48 students over a three-year period, we are interested in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Differences, First Generation College Students, Student Experience
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Kristin Husby Dyrstad; Kristin Fjelde Tjelle – History of Education, 2025
This article explores the gendered history of Norwegian deacon education. We look at the case of the Deacons' Home ("Diakonhjemmet") in Oslo, established in 1890 to train male nurse deacons. The aim was that they would complement female deaconesses' work with their physical strength and male character traits. 1968 marked a turning point…
Descriptors: Educational History, Professional Identity, Gender Differences, Churches
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Ákos Bocskor – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
The paper investigates gender differences in coolness dynamics among early and middle adolescents in a Hungarian panel dataset, which followed students from grade 5 (age 11-12) to grade 8 (age 14-15). Drawing on Gender Prototypicality Theory, we expected significantly different gendered patterns in the association between coolness and various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Early Adolescents, Grade 5