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Muhammet Demirbilek; Tarik Talan – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Violence against women is a grave violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women. It can take many forms such as physical violence, sexual abuse, stalking, or forced marriages. Faith actors can be part of the solution rather than the problem when working and advocating for gender justice. iENGAGE project aims to address the…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment
West, Tracey – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
Does the gender pay gap affect women's ability to repay their student debt? This study investigates the extent to which an income contingent scheme benefits women because of their individual earnings. Using the Australian Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, gender differences in debt repayment behaviour over the past two…
Descriptors: Females, Debt (Financial), Gender Differences, Low Income Groups
Bohonos, Jeremy; Chuma, Phenious; Lutomia, Anne N.; Henderson, Eboni W.; Pittendrigh, Barry Robert; Bello-Bravo, Julia – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2022
This paper reports on a case study that explores how the integrative model of program planning can be applied to better understand the process of mobile learning efforts in diverse African contexts. The authors discuss how, Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO), a Purdue University-based program, creates educational videos accessible in…
Descriptors: Program Development, Animation, Video Technology, International Cooperation
Prendes-Espinosa, María-Paz; García-Tudela, Pedro-Antonio; Solano-Fernández, Isabel-María – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
This article focuses on gender equality as one of the most relevant objectives of the educational system to alleviate gender violence and combat stereotypes. At the same time, ICTs have become a very important educational tool in a digital society like the one where we live. Around these two topics we conducted this research whose purpose is, from…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Sex Stereotypes, Information Technology, Educational Practices
Vesterberg, Viktor – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This article focuses on adult learning in labour-market projects targeting unemployed migrants in Sweden. Drawing on a Foucauldian analysis of governmentality, the results of the study problematize the ways that such projects produce individualizing discourses--targeting individuals, constructing them as responsible for their position as…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Labor Market, Sex Fairness, Unemployment
Trapè, Roberta – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper concerns a virtual exchange project between the University of Virginia (UVa), United States, and an upper-secondary school in Pavia, Italy. Centred on the question of gender equality, the project has been designed to take place over three years (2018-2021) with a direct reference to Robert O'Dowd's transnational model of virtual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Exchange Programs, Program Descriptions, Secondary School Students
Shoger, Suzanne Grassel – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Improving collegiate women's access to and retention in engineering requires a multifaceted approach. Though a majority of existing interventions are aimed at changing women, strengthening their skills, and increasing their networks, little emphasis is directed at addressing the institutional factors that influence women's opportunities for…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Skill Development, Social Justice, Disproportionate Representation
Cray, David; McKay, Ruth; Mittelman, Robert – Intercultural Education, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to examine cultural effects on interactions within a Canadian MBA programme delivered in Iran. The analysis helps illuminate some of the important cultural differences between the countries and their importance for international education. The study also illustrates how single cause explanations often provide…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Cultural Differences
Sherry, Emma; Schulenkorf, Nico – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
League Bilong Laif (LBL) is a sport-for-development (SFD) programme that was established in 2013 as a three-way partnership between the Australian Government, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Government (Department of Education) and the Australian Rugby League Commission (National Rugby League). As a contribution to addressing low rates of school…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Program Descriptions, Partnerships in Education, Outcomes of Education
Situma, David Barasa – Journal of Learning for Development, 2015
The female population in Kenya was reported at 50.05% in 2011, according to a World Bank report published in 2012. Despite this slightly higher percentage over males, women in Kenya are not well represented in education and training compared to their male counterparts (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, 2012). The need to empower girls and women…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Informal Education, Womens Education, Civil Rights
UNICEF, 2019
"The Global Framework on Transferable Skills" has been developed to support UNICEF in delivering on the results of its "Strategic Plan 2018-2021" and "Every Child Learns: UNICEF Education Strategy 2019-2030," and provides a shared vision of work on skills development across UNICEF. The Framework guides UNICEF country…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Guidelines, Transfer of Training, Strategic Planning
Yuki, Takako; Mizuno, Keiko; Ogawa, Keiichi; Mihoko, Sakai – International Review of Education, 2013
Many girls are not sent to school in Yemen, despite basic education being free as well as compulsory for all children aged 6-15. Aiming to improve girls' enrollment by increasing parental and community involvement, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) offered a technical cooperation project in June 2005 called Broadening Regional…
Descriptors: Females, Access to Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Gadin, Katja Gillander; Weiner, Gaby; Ahlgren, Christina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
A school health promotion project was carried out in an elementary school in Sweden where active participation, gender equality, and empowerment were leading principles. The objective of the study was to understand challenges and to identify social processes of importance for such a project. Focus group interviews were conducted with 6 single-sex…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Sex Fairness, Empowerment, Elementary School Students
Shah, Payal P. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2011
This article examines a national girls' education program and its role in addressing gender inequality in the Indian state of Gujarat. In 2004, the Ministry of Education, Government of India, enacted the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyala (KGBV) program. As a national program designed to increase educational access for the most marginalized girls, the…
Descriptors: Females, National Programs, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
O'Dwyer, John; Aksit, Necmi; Sands, Margaret – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
The Eastern Anatolian project extends opportunity and access to quality education. The study examines the selection and learning systems adopted within the framework of gender equity, family background and higher order skills. Performance data on a range of selection measures and the initial programme are analysed. Results show that selection was…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness
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