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Download full textTamika Worrell – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2024
Indigenous education futures require the prioritising of Indigenous voices. We need to ensure educators are engaging in deep listening, critical self-reflection and learning to develop necessary understandings. This paper will explore the urgency of prioritising Blak voices in all classrooms, emphasising the role of Indigenous-authored texts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Disproportionate Representation, Inclusion
Direct linkAlaina D. Fernandes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There are fewer doctoral degrees earned by women than men in many STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, and gender gaps in higher education pathways persist. The purpose of this action research study was to investigate and understand the experiences and persistence of women Ph.D. students in male-dominated STEM…
Descriptors: Females, Graduate Study, Academic Persistence, Doctoral Students
Wold, Cheryl; Neville, Alan; Monaghan-Geernaert, Pamela – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2023
Native American students appear to be overrepresented in the special education population of PreK-12 schools. In 2021, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that a higher percentage of American Indian/Alaska Native children were served by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) than children in any other…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Disproportionate Representation, Student Experience, American Indian Students
Ovid, Dax; Abrams, L'vannah; Carlson, Tess; Dieter, Mark; Flores, Paulos; Frischer, David; Goolish, Jolie; Bernt, Michelle La-Fevre; Lancaster, Amber; Lipski, Christopher; Luna, Joshua Vargas; Luong, Lucy M. C.; Mullin, Marlene; Newman, Mia Janelle; Quintero, Carolina; Reis, Julie; Robinson, Freja; Ross, Allison James; Simon, Hilary; Souza, Gianne; Taylor, Jess; Ward, Katherine E.; White, Yvonne Lever; Witkop, Emily; Yang, Christine; Zenilman, Aliza; Zhang, Eddie; Schinske, Jeffrey N.; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Based on theoretical frameworks of scientist stereotypes, possible selves, and science identity, written assignments were developed to teach science content through biographies and research of counter-stereotypical scientists--Scientist Spotlights (www.scientistspotlights.org). Previous studies on Scientist Spotlight assignments showed significant…
Descriptors: Scientists, Secondary School Students, Self Concept, Writing Assignments
Kuykendall, Tristta – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2023
Gifted education is a broken talent pipeline. Gifted programs in primary schools provide access to honors and advanced curriculum in middle schools, which lead to advanced courses in secondary schools, which are pipelines to higher education institutions (Milner & Ford, 2007; Patrick et al., 2020). Though gifted students exist in all…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Equal Education, Student Characteristics
Monique Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
African American women represent an overwhelmingly low percentage of Division I athletic directors compared to White men, Black men, and White women. White men hold the majority, 64%, of Division I athletic director positions, while African American women only hold 3% of these positions. African American athletic directors do not accurately…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Women Administrators, African Americans, Disproportionate Representation
Ivo Jirásek; Nikola Maceková – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2023
Children's literature can become one of the means of shaping personal identity, including gender socialization. The main characters portrayed in a book can become a kind of gender role model. The study examines gender themes in Czech books for children of younger school age that have been awarded the Golden Ribbon and Magnesia Litera prizes. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Young Children, Disproportionate Representation
Bennett, Jean Kennedy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation presents the first known Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) investigation of how marginalized students are included in syllabi. This study fills a gap in the literature due to the changing demographic of college students, the absence of faculty who share these marginalized identities, the syllabus being the first…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Disadvantaged, Power Structure, Course Descriptions
Dalal, Vistasp Pheroze – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In the 21st century, the exponential growth of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education and the corresponding critical need for STEM graduates in the profession have both outpaced the number of STEM graduates joining the workforce. This is a global problem, one to which the U.S. can relate. A literature review of research…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, STEM Education, Student Recruitment, Community College Students
Danielle Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Access to pre-college and college support programs is essential to student achievement and success. There are a myriad of opportunities and programming that will assist in college readiness for K-12 students. Exposure and awareness are key to these college readiness programs. By participating in college readiness programs, students are more apt to…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Administrators, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
Kevin H. Foster – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In a recent study conducted by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), Pritchard and McChesney (2018) identified three key challenges to student affairs professionals: increasing student diversity, higher costs and reduced funding in higher education, and business-model pressures for efficiencies. The same report…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Higher Education, Disproportionate Representation
Audrey Quade – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many of the barriers women face in achieving senior leadership positions in higher education institutions are the result of ingroup disidentification. The problem that was addressed in this study is the low gender identification of women managers in higher education. The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in detachment,…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Higher Education, College Administration, Faculty Mobility
Kendall Richards; Nick Pilcher; Laurent Galbrun; Alan Forster; James Richards – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
This paper examines staff perspectives on institutional representations of a range of areas of diversity and inclusion in a key post-compulsory education sector: that of UK Higher Education (HE). The paper focuses on comparing representational statements made by institutions with the reality of their lived experiences as perceived by staff. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employee Attitudes, Diversity, Inclusion
Flowers, Erin Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to describe the major choice experience and motivation of nontraditional female students in male dominated majors. A transcendental phenomenological method was used to answer the central research question: how do women who are nontraditional students enrolled in male dominated majors at two-and four-year institutions…
Descriptors: Females, Majors (Students), Disproportionate Representation, Nontraditional Students
Talana A. Palmer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In K-12 public school districts, females are not dominant in educational leadership positions. Females continue to be underrepresented in the positions that pay more and have the greatest impact on students' education. Despite some females pursuing and attaining credentials for leadership, they encounter obstacles along the path to leadership.…
Descriptors: Females, Barriers, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
