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Brar, Gurpreet – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Post-secondary education has been correlated to an individual's self-esteem and quality of life. With this commodity being accessible in a variety of formats, there continue to be discrepancies in attainment for males and females. Current research has documented that the number of females who are earning a college degree has surpassed that of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Barriers, Ethnicity, Males
Masterman, Ann Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study's purpose was to compare the lived experiences of doctoral women studying Education, a prototypically female field, with women studying Engineering, a prototypically male field to illustrate the phenomenon of doctoral degree progress in the two fields. Using critical feminist theory and Valian's (1999) concept of gender schemas, this…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Females, Student Experience, Education Majors
di Bartolo, Adriana N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Key scholars have studied campus climate, and often these climate studies are done through the lens of race and racial issues on campus. A few studies have explored the interaction between campus climate and sexual and gender minority students. However, those studies, like the climate studies through a racial lens, found that lesbian, gay,…
Descriptors: College Students, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity
Bazzy, Zadda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
As boys in the upper elementary grades become increasingly influenced by peer pressure, many are less likely to participate in singing activities because singing is considered a "feminine" activity. The purpose of this research was to explore if there was an effect on upper elementary boys' level of participation during group singing activities…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Music Education, Music, Singing
Brathwaite, Debra Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Single-sex education is a reform initiative that is taking root in the United States and in many countries around the world as a possible solution to closing the racial, achievement, and gender gaps that have emerged where minority students lag behind their White counterparts and boys are falling behind girls academically. Although there have been…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Public Schools, Discipline, Academic Achievement
Saito, Junko – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examines Japanese male superiors' linguistic practices in an institutional setting in Japan, in particular focusing on directive usage. It quantitatively and qualitatively elucidates how seven male superiors in a workplace, which is located in the Tokyo area, employ diverse linguistic resources in directive discourse so as to persuade…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Sex Stereotypes, Females, Linguistics
Day, Kathryn Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined conceptions of the right to literacy in children, adolescents, and young adults living in rural Zulu villages in the mountains of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, as one instantiation of the development of conceptions of human rights in a developing world setting. Of human rights, literacy was chosen because of its familiarity to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Population, Childrens Rights
Glass, Charles R. – ProQuest LLC, 2007
The purpose of this study will be to examine the effect of racial identity/consciousness (RIC) on the academic achievement of African American female college freshmen. This causal-comparative study is intended to provide research based info ration concerning the impact of racial identity/consciousness development on the academic achievement of…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Academic Achievement, African American Students, Comparative Analysis
Whiteside, Dora – ProQuest LLC, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of racial identity/consciousness development on the academic achievement of African American male college freshmen. In the late 1900s Black identity models were developed to help African Americans grasp hold of who they were, as they lived in the residues of the peculiar institution of slavery.…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Academic Achievement, African American Students, Comparative Analysis