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Gurian, Michael; Stevens, Kathy; Daniels, Peggy – Educational Horizons, 2009
Over the past decade, the Gurian Institute has trained more than forty thousand teachers in more than two thousand schools and districts, both coed and single-sex. The institute's trainers have worked with public and private schools, Montessori schools, and a variety of charter and independent schools in fifteen countries; it has therefore been…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Program Effectiveness, Educational History, Federal Legislation
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Action in Teacher Education, 1983
This series of articles describes four promising practices. Included are (1) "North Carolina Central University's Institute on Desegregation: A Center for Interinstitutional Research"; (2) "Beyond the Status Quo: Merging Feminist Studies with Teacher Education"; (3) "Instructing Our Newest Minority: The Haitian"; and (4) "Sex-Role Stereotyping: A…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Berryman-Fink, Cynthia – 1982
Although illegal, sexual harassment is frequent in the American workplace and extremely disruptive and costly to employees and employers alike. Most organizational responses to the problem have been hard line, short term, after-the-fact measures that inform, threaten, or discipline employees. What is needed, however, is a training program with an…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Females, Holistic Approach
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Strickland, Donna – College English, 2001
Maps out two simultaneous and mutually reinforcing phenomena: (1) the material conditions that have given rise to hierarchically arranged writing programs; and (2) the attendant cultural values that have made possible the feminization as well as the racialization of composition teaching. Argues that writing programs have emerged by way of…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Higher Education, Program Development, Sex Differences
Hunt, Todd; Thompson, David W. – 1987
The sharp decline in the number of male undergraduates registering for public relations (PR) courses has created concern that public relations is becoming a "woman's field" and will experience a concomitant drop in salaries and prestige. Studies indicate that male undergraduates perceive PR as being not well respected, as offering little…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Communication Skills, Educational Environment, Educational Practices
Dillon, Linda S. – 1981
A study was conducted to develop a model that would promote sex equity by increasing the enrollment of nontraditional sex membership in occupational education programs at North Carolina community colleges. In order to gather input from the colleges involved as well as educational and community leaders, a series of three conferences was planned to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Females, Game Theory
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1989
These guidelines for California's community colleges specify required elements of a staff diversity/affirmative action plan, recommend sound practices and activities that will maximize the likelihood of success, and provide information on, and required elements of, related issues such as sexual harassment, handicap discrimination, and AIDS in the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Affirmative Action, College Faculty, College Planning
Ballara, Marcela – 1996
Women's literacy rates have improved in nearly all countries for which data are available. However, discrimination in access to education starts in early childhood and tends to continue throughout women's lives. Reproductive, productive, and community roles are considered family responsibilities to be assumed by women. Because these activities…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1986
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded contracts to assemble information about practices which identify, refer, and treat employed women alcoholics. In Phase I data were collected on the frequency of use of employee assistance programs by women alcoholics. Findings indicated no great differences between men and women.…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Drinking, Employed Women
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McCabe, Marita P.; Schreck, Agi – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1992
This paper evaluates the current information base on sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities, specifically in the areas of sexual knowledge, sexual experience, sexual feelings and attitudes, and sexual need. Consideration of this information is critical in developing appropriate sex education programs that can enhance the quality of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Development, Knowledge Level, Mental Retardation
Carpenter, Gaylene M.; Orford, Gale B. – Camping Magazine, 1987
Discusses sex role stereotyping in camping and in society. Suggests ways camp administrators and counselors can use activity programs, group living, housekeeping, and management functions to encourage development of androgynous traits and lifestyles free from culturally imposed definitions of masculinity and femininity. (LFL)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Behavior Change, Camping, Child Development
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1984
This report summarizes the meetings of the World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group on Family Planning and Sex Education of Young People, which was attended by advisors representing education, sociology, psychology, pediatrics, demography, obstetrics and gynocology, family planning, and psychological medicine. The advisors were from eight…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delivery Systems, Family Planning, Foreign Countries
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Stokes, Jean – Journal of the National Association of Women Deans, Administrators, and Counselors, 1986
The deficit model, based on a prevailing orientation toward women in our culture, suggests that they are inferior, presumably as a consequence of genetics and/or socialization. Challenges this orientation, contending it pervades much of the decision making and substance in programs for training and development for women and leads to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Females, Needs Assessment, Negative Attitudes
Kirschenbaum, Robert J. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1993
This interview with Carolyn Callahan, an expert in gifted education, examines the process of program evaluation and other topics. It discusses how often evaluations should be done, differences between evaluating a relatively new program and a well-established program, inappropriate evaluation practices, program features parents should look for,…
Descriptors: Early Admission, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Gifted
Alliance, an Association for Alternative Degree Programs. – 1996
These proceedings consist of 20 presentations made during 5 sessions at a conference dealing with alternative degree programs for adults. The following papers are included: "Narrative Reasoning as Assessment" (Richard M. Ashbrook); "Political and Administrative Issues in Developing a Distance Learning Based Program" (Margaret…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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