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Msiza, Vusi – Education 3-13, 2020
The paper seeks to demonstrate how societal constructions and gender policing inform male teachers' identities in the schooling context of Foundation phase teaching in South Africa. This is a phase that has been historically dominated by women and is often regarded as a 'women only' space. The study was conducted using a case study methodology and…
Descriptors: Males, Sex Role, Professional Identity, Gender Differences
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Carvalho, Teresa; Diogo, Sara – Education Sciences, 2018
This paper examines how two Portuguese women rectors constructed narratives on their path to leadership positions and their performance of leadership roles. The study is based on a qualitative empirical analysis based on life story interviews with two women rectors in Portugal. The results from this research suggest that women rectors tend to…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Women Administrators, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives
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Powell, Stina; Grubbström, Ann – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2023
Purpose: The aim of this article is to examine the role of formal and informal leadership for advancing gender equality in forestry education. Methodology: The article builds on empirical material from focus group interviews and semi-structured interviews with students, teachers and leaders at an agricultural university in Sweden. Findings: The…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Gender Differences, Forestry, Agricultural Education
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Okseon Lee; Kevin Andrew Richards; Yeri Hong; Youngjoon Kim – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: Grounded in the occupational socialization theory, this study explored how gender interacted with and influenced socialization experiences in the careers of South Korean female physical educators. Specific attention was directed toward the gendered experiences that female teachers experienced and the coping strategies to navigate them.…
Descriptors: Socialization, Females, Gender Differences, Physical Education
Olsen, Katie Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore how one woman negotiated an educational and professional path that led to leadership within the advertising industry's creative departments, where most of the leadership positions are held by men. This qualitative study was conducted using purposeful sampling, as the single participant represented a truly…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Gender Differences, Advertising, Creativity
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Cáceres-Reche, María Pilar; López-Gómez, Miguel; Sadio-Ramos, Fernando José; Berral-Ortiz, Blanca; Martínez-Domingo, José Antonio – Education Sciences, 2021
The exercise of leadership in the educational area and its diverse forms of being reflected in practice continue to arouse interest at the time of designing and developing research that reveals the characteristics that a leader must have in order to be considered a competent university leader, that is, a college student who carries out activities…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Universities, College Students, Leadership Role
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Redmond, Petrea; Gutke, Hannah; Galligan, Linda; Howard, Angela; Newman, Tara – Gender and Education, 2017
Issues of gender imbalance in leadership have long been a significant issue in universities, as is the case across most industries. This paper explores the experiences of seven females who have successfully achieved senior leadership positions at a regional university in Australia. While the experiences of these women differ in many ways, there…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Resilience (Psychology), Leadership Role
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McAlister, Anne M.; Lilly, Sarah; Chiu, Jennifer L. – Science Education, 2022
We explore how physical science doctoral students navigate their role identities throughout their graduate programme. Physical science doctoral students take on many academic roles in addition to the role of scientist, including researcher, educator, and student. When social expectations of roles become internalized, they become role identities.…
Descriptors: Student Role, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Self Concept
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Ngabirano, Tom D.; Saftner, Melissa A.; McMorris, Barbara J. – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
Adolescents in rural Uganda face unique opportunities and challenges to their health. The primary goal of this exploratory cross-sectional survey study was to describe the health behaviors of adolescents of age 13-19 living in four Ugandan fishing communities as a foundation for developing programs to reduce risky health behaviors and HIV/AIDS…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Health Behavior, Case Studies, Program Development
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Kuzhabekova, Aliya; Almukhambetova, Ainur – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
Using a qualitative horizontal comparative case study approach, this paper explores the experiences of female leaders in Central Asian academia to identify challenges they face in transition/performance, the sources of the challenges, and any differences in the experiences of the female leaders. The results of the study are consistent with prior…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Instructional Leadership, Women Faculty
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Robertson, Margaret J.; Nguyet Nguyen, Minh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
Since the early 21st century the number of doctoral students leaving their own country to study abroad has risen significantly adding to swelling numbers of domestic students. The process of doctoral studies has been acknowledged as identity transformation, a process of "becoming" for domestic students and international students. What…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs
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Yager, Zali; Gray, Tonia; Curry, Christina; McLean, Siân A. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2020
Background: Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers are in a unique position to act as role models to their students. Purpose: To explore the expectations, beliefs and attitudes towards role modelling of health behaviours by pre-service teachers who were specialising in HPE, and those who were not. Study design: Cross-sectional, Survey…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers
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Jones, Charlotte; Aubrey, Carol – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2019
This case study attempts to capture the way gender is constructed and experienced in the social world of the nursery school. It presents findings from a staff survey, structured and unstructured observations of one male's and one female's professional practice and one-to-one interviews with children aged three to four years. Despite practitioners'…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Gender Differences, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Cheruvalath, Reena – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
It is proposed to examine the argument that females cannot perform better in engineering and science fields because of their poor mathematical or logical reasoning. The major reason for the reduced number of females in the above fields in India is the socio-cultural aversion towards females choosing the field and restriction in providing higher…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Case Studies, Engineering Education, Technology Education
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Sincovich, Alanna; Gregory, Tess; Harman-Smith, Yasmin; Brinkman, Sally Anne – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Despite widespread utilization, research exploring associations between playgroup and child development is scarce. We analyzed a national data set measuring the holistic development of children aged 4 to 6 years who commenced school in Australia in 2015 (n = 104,767), the Australian Early Development Census, to explore developmental differences…
Descriptors: Play, Correlation, Child Development, Preschool Children
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