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O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee – Gender and Education, 2022
This essay draws from four years of ethnographic fieldwork with women activists in self-defined Paulo Freirean-based popular education schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rather than leaning on the traditions of education activism, modeled on Freire's class-based emancipatory vision, the women in this study sought to turn popular education's focus…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Activism, Feminism, Popular Education
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Errázuriz, Valentina; Lami, Camila; Rodríguez, Camila – Gender and Education, 2022
In this article, we analyze our individually written testimonios and group conversations about our experience as 'woman' in Catholic schools in Chile, using Butler's concept of performativity and Braidotti's concept of nomadic subjectivity. We argue that some Catholic schools in Chile reproduce the category 'woman' as a pure, selfless, sexy,…
Descriptors: Females, Catholic Schools, Violence, Educational Experience
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McMain, Emma M. – Gender and Education, 2022
Amidst essentialising discourses that circulate through educational spaces (e.g. that 'boys will be boys' or that boys are inherently aggressive), there is a need for more research that explores adolescent identities as complex and relational. This study considers the affective-discursive practices that both constrain and enable teenage boys to…
Descriptors: Aggression, Violence, Males, Gender Differences
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Martinez, César Augusto Ferrari – Gender and Education, 2023
This article investigates the production of neoliberal subjectivities in Latin American international students in Chilean universities. In last years, Chile have registered plenty political uprisings regarding its economic, social and gender inequalities. The premise is that Chile is a country where Neoliberalism is rooted not only in the form of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Lenz Taguchi, Hillevi; Palmer, Anna – Gender and Education, 2013
School girls in Sweden are reported to develop psychological (ill)health in relation to their school behaviour and over-achievements. The methods offered as prevention and treatments are aimed at the individual girl's self-management of stress, health and psychological state, putting the responsibility on the girls themselves. This feminist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Educational Environment, Gender Differences
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Osler, Audrey – Gender and Education, 2006
School exclusion and violence are defined with boys as the reference point and relatively little attention is given to the various forms of exclusion--disciplinary exclusion, self-exclusion and withdrawal from learning--to which girls are subject. Girls in difficulty at school receive less attention than their male peers from policy-makers,…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Females, Gender Differences, Violence