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Keddie, Amanda; Mills, Martin – Research Papers in Education, 2009
This article rejects the notion that schools have become excessively feminised spaces that are failing to adequately provide for the educational needs of boys. This construction of schools as feminised has provided the impetus for the development of what have become known as "boy-friendly" pedagogies. Unfortunately such pedagogies work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Gender Issues, Social Justice
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Halai, Anjum – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
This paper focuses on gender awareness issues as a dimension of addressing the wider issue of the quality of education in Pakistan from the perspective of social justice. In Pakistan classrooms, boys and girls learn separately and therefore teachers and others tend to think that there are no gender issues once access is achieved and the learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Change
Milton, Penny – Education Canada, 2002
A private alternative school in the slums of New Delhi (India) is committed to ending female child labor and ensuring that its students don't grow up poor. The school was able to enroll girls in its all-female afternoon classes by getting their mothers involved in income-generating cooperatives. The students often outperform their peers in state…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Entrepreneurship
Haque, Riffat; Batool, Syeda Najeeba – 1999
The Allama Iqbal Open University of Pakistan started the Women's Secondary Education Project through distance learning in 1986. It was designed to meet the educational needs of rural women who are denied access to the formal education system because of social and economic constraints. The distance education method suited these women because by…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Barron, Jennie – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 1995
A course developed for young at-risk women in an alternative high school program involves trips out of the city, earns credits for physical education, and links students to the environment. Although balancing leadership and shared decision making was difficult, trips planned by the students became the ideal cooperative venture to seduce students…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Field Trips, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics