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Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC. – 2002
The Girls' Education Unit (GEU) of the Basic Education Division of Ghana Education Service (GES) organized this Approaches for Advancing Girls' Education (AAGE) symposium to address the issues of girls' education, to construct a comprehensive picture of what interventions related to girls' education are currently being implemented, and identify…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Benefits, Females, Foreign Countries
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 2001
A regional UNESCO seminar aimed to follow up on the goals set at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000 and to contribute to the "Ten Year UN Girls' Education Initiative" (UNGEI). The seminar established three primary aims: (1) to develop a regional cooperation mechanism or network of Education for All (EFA) gender focal points, to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Developing Nations, Educational Objectives, Equal Education
Dyer, Susan K., Ed. – 2001
In September 2000, a symposium was convened by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation to foster a discussion among scholars who study both girls' and boys' experiences in and out of school. Participants shared their insights about gender identity and difference, challenged popular views of girls' and boys' behavior,…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Gender Issues
Agency for International Development (IDCA), Washington, DC. – 2000
This document presents a summary of a colloquium that focused on the threat the HIV/AIDS epidemic poses to education systems and to girls' access to and completion of education. The colloquium examined how girls' education might be used to mitigate this impact. The meeting involved nearly 200 people from academic institutions, nongovernmental…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Comprehensive School Health Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Fraser, Barry J., Ed.; Giddings, Geoff J., Ed. – 1987
This publication is a compilation of papers presented at a research seminar in November 1986 at Curtin University of Technology, Australia. Five papers are included. Jane Butler Kahle's keynote address, "Images of Science: The Physicist and the Cowboy," outlines several aspects of the role of schools in the reproducion of the masculine image of…
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues