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Sheehan, Helen; Riddle, Stewart – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
This paper examines the utility of Campbell's narrative construction of 'the hero's journey' as a conceptual apparatus to understand how international students from Confucian heritage cultures navigate their experiences in Western schooling systems like Australia. The hero's journey framework was used to investigate the commonalities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Secondary Education, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
Liwen Chen; Bobby W. Chung; Guangwha Wang – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Increased exposure to gender-role information affects a girl's educational performance. Utilizing the classroom randomization in Chinese middle schools, we find that the increased presence of stay-at-home peer mothers significantly reduces a girl's performance in mathematics. This exposure also cultivates gendered attitudes towards mathematics and…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Mothers, Womens Education, Females