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Zampini, Giulia; Österman, Linnéa; Stengel, Camille; Bennallick, Morwenna – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2019
This article is a critical reflection of the role of gender in the delivery of a higher education course based on the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme. Related concepts such as hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and intersectionality are discussed within the prison education setting. This reflection primarily draws on critical incidents…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Females, Higher Education
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Goff, Wilhelmina D.; Johnson, Norman J. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
Over thousands of years the brain has evolved. Our ability to change its structure is quite limited. What we can do is change the way we work with the brain and appeal to it. These notions are the building blocks for this paper. Three strands of intellectual work (neuroscience to include social intelligence, pedagogy, and environment/culture) are…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Single Sex Schools, Educational Policy, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Tsolidis, Georgina; Dobson, Ian R. – Gender & Education, 2006
The current debate about boys' education risks taking us back decades in terms of understanding the significance of gender in relation to education. Of particular concern here is the tendency within such debates to rely on dichotomous understandings of gender which reinscribe essentialist understandings of both "girls" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Males, Single Sex Schools
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Salomone, Rosemary C. – Teachers College Record, 2006
In March, 2004, the federal Department of Education issued proposed Title IX regulations that promise to provide public school districts and charter school organizers considerable flexibility in establishing single-sex classes and schools. At the same time, however, as part of the No Child Left Behind Act, the Department has called for…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Educational Research, Single Sex Schools, Educational Policy
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Rommes, Els; Faulkner, Wendy; Van Slooten, Irma – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2005
Women-only vocational courses in technology, which became popular across Western Europe during the 1980s, had fallen from fashion by 2000. Yet the need for such courses remains, at least in certain circumstances. Drawing on case studies of two women-only courses in information and communications technology (ICT), from the Netherlands and Scotland,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Case Studies, Single Sex Classes
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Ferrara, Peter J.; Ferrara, Margaret M. – ERS Spectrum, 2004
When a New York school district found a majority of its middle school students scoring below an acceptable level in four major academic areas, it tried many interventions, including a three-year experiment in single-gender classrooms. Although single-gender classrooms are no longer as common in the United States as in years past, recent…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Attendance Patterns, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Gillies, Warna – Principal Leadership, 2001
Research over 20 years indicates that teachers are more attentive to male students from preschool through high school. Gender-appropriate practices maximize learning opportunities for both sexes by ensuring ongoing, formative evaluations, respecting each individual's learning pace, providing mentors, and intervening positively when appropriate.…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Equal Education, Femininity, Gender Issues