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Silver, Rachel; Morley, Alyssa – Gender and Education, 2022
Sexual regulation has been a core component of formal schooling in Southern Africa since its inception, with discipline central to teachers' work. Yet internationally funded, girl-focused development programs give new shape and legitimacy to teacher interventions on student sexuality. Building on a combined two years of multi-sited ethnographic…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Program Development, Intervention
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Chappell, Paul; Johns, Rebecca; Nene, Siphumelele; Hanass-Hancock, Jill – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
Over the past two decades, comprehensive sexuality education has increasingly been recognised as a measure that positively impacts on the sexual behaviour of young people in Africa. Despite this, and a political call to scale-up the use of comprehensive sexuality education in schools in South Africa, learners with disabilities continue to be left…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Intellectual Disability, Sexuality
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Dualeh, Delmar; Diaz-Mendoza, Virginia; Son, Monika; Luperon, Christian – Journal of College and Character, 2018
The low enrollment, retention, and graduation rate among men of color in higher education is a national crisis. The John Jay SEEK Department has created a committee focused exclusively to address this crisis. The committee's work includes focus and weekly support groups. The groups entitled P.O.W.E.R. (Pushing Our Will to Experience Resilience)…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, Minority Group Students, Males
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Ryu, Kiung; Cervero, Ronald M. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2011
Program planning activities are not culturally neutral but are replete with various cultural values and affected by them. This qualitative study was conducted in Korea and examines how cultural values influence educational planning in Korea. Specifically, the study was to examine how Confucian cultural values play out in educational planning in…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Interests, Foreign Countries, Social Values
Sankhulani, Lillian – International Education Journal, 2007
This paper reports on the findings of the preliminary research that I conducted in two districts of southern Malawi, Africa. The purpose of the research was to establish the existence of the Sara Communication Initiative (SCI), a girls' intervention program, which had been introduced to selected rural schools. During the preliminary visits, I…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Role Models, Intervention, Females
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Sanik, Margaret Mietus; O'Neill, Barbara – Journal of Extension, 1982
This article shares information on the participation of husbands and children in household work and provides information that will help extension agents in program planning. Research shows that the fact that a woman works has little impact on the husband's or children's participation in household chores. (CT)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Extension Agents, Family Involvement, Fathers
Allen, Ruth A. – 1978
A non-sexist preschool program was developed which attempted to eliminate sex-stereotyping in room arrangement, classroom materials, curriculum units, and teacher behavior and language. Measurements of sex-role stereotyping administered to the children before and after a 6-month exposure to the non-sexist program consisted of an Occupation Clue…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Instructional Materials, Masters Theses, Preschool Children
Downie, Susanna; And Others – 1988
This report was written to measure progress on the National Plan of Action for Women. It is organized in four parts. Part I contains background on how the plan came into being and makes clear why it was important to evaluate the plan. Part II reports the results of the first part of a two-stage survey conducted to gather information on how the…
Descriptors: Adults, Battered Women, Change, Displaced Homemakers
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1976
This report delineates the problems created by sex role stereotyping and recommends a plan for eliminating such practices. It recognizes the traditional independence of the local school districts in Wisconsin and attempts to persuade school districts of the desirability of undertaking such a plan. This report, with its recommendations and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Inservice Education, Nondiscriminatory Education
James, Walter – 1985
The reports are presented from three Cooperative Monitoring Groups of the Council for Cultural Cooperation. The groups studied 14 projects that contributed to local and regional development through their provision or encouragement of the provision by others of adult education and training as a component of that development. A brief introduction…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Developed Nations
Wolf, Mary Alice – 1996
An interesting area of adult development is "gender shift": the transition from the traditional life patterns or ways of making meaning that are associated with stereotypically male or female roles. One may experience the wish to fulfill those parts of one's personality often associated with feminine or masculine constructs not yet explored.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Curriculum Development
Veres, Helen C.; Carmichael, Mary Margaret – 1981
A project developed and tested methods to reduce sex-role stereotyping in occupational education programs. A total of 460 students completed two surveys that obtained information on background, education and career plans, influences on choice of occupation, perceptions of support for nontraditional career choice, and perceptions of occupational…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Education, Decision Making
Schwartz, Lila; Voorhees, Anita E. – 1979
Initiated as an innovative approach to career development, the Women in the Technologies (WITT) program aimed at the elimination of barriers to career advancement arising from sex stereotype related problems on the job. The process involved (1) establishment of linkages with business and industrial organizations, (2) presentation of a "needs…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. – 2000
While girls and women in Laos are not the target of strong discriminatory practices, they are at a higher risk of dropping out of school and never attending school. Specific components have been developed within educational policies and strategies to address needs of and concerns for girls and women. Reasons that girls and women lack access to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development