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Davidoff, Paula; Hunt, Carolyn – Teaching Artist Journal, 2015
Teaching artists know that many of the children they teach are being deprived of essential human experiences. Poverty, violence, and ineffective education have left them with little hope of emotional or material success, and a student's connection to an artist can change his or her life in little and big ways. Paula Davidoff and Carolyn Hunt are…
Descriptors: Females, Artists, Art Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Shpungin, Elaine; Allen, Nicole; Loomis, Colleen; DelloStritto, Mary Ellen – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
This article describes a feminist intervention to raise awareness about, and problematize, the pervasive experience of silencing, as reported by women, people of color, students, people identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ), people with national origins outside of North America, and people with disabilities, within…
Descriptors: Scripts, Feminism, Intervention, Disabilities
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Winn, Maisha T.; Jackson, Chelsea A. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
In the twenty-first century the United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country. While the numbers of incarcerated males far outnumber incarcerated women, there are still great concerns about the growing female prison population. This fixation with incarceration and building prisons has trickled down to America's children as…
Descriptors: Playwriting, Females, Correctional Institutions, Ethnography
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van Drenth, Annemieke; van Essen, Mineke – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
In this paper the concept of gender script is applied to examine the cases of two women educationists trying to construct a professional "self" in confrontation with gender scripts that constantly recited meanings of gender, in particular of femininity. The research focus is on the period 1890-1940, when in the Netherlands, like abroad,…
Descriptors: Scripts, Elementary Education, Females, Participation
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Harmon, Sandra D.; Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela; Westbury, Susan – History Teacher, 1999
Describes the production of a readers' theater version of the first women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York (includes script). Discusses the benefits of readers' theater for studying women's history and encouraging female student class participation; strategies for using readers' theater; and students creating their own readers'…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Females, Higher Education, History Instruction