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Kuhl, Kylie – South African Journal of Education, 2021
In this article I explore the role that class, and its intersections with gender, play in shaping the way that learners at a private, all-girls school in South Africa conceptualise their sexuality education. Drawing on data from focus group discussions with 2 friendship groups of Grade 10 learners, the evidence reveals the multiple, intersecting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Private Schools, Single Sex Schools
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Kruger, Lou-Marie; Shefer, Tamara; Oakes, Antoinette – Perspectives in Education, 2015
Progressive policies protecting women's rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not appear to have impacted on more equitable sexual relations in all contexts. In South Africa, gender power inequalities, intersecting with other forms of inequality in society, pose a challenge…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Females, Civil Rights, Power Structure
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Fisette, Jennifer L. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Background: Limited research has been conducted on student voice with students in physical education. Accessing and responding to student voice are relevant for researchers and physical education teachers to develop physical education programs that are meaningful and have a sense of purpose to the students themselves. It is through listening to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Females, Gender Differences, Barriers
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McKinney, Carolyn – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2010
Research on school desegregation in South Africa has largely documented an assimilationist process. As in educational contexts elsewhere, the assimilationist position presupposes that learners from non-dominant groups are made to change their ways of being on entering schools from which they were previously excluded. Drawing on an ethnographic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Desegregation, Identification (Psychology), Acculturation
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Olsen, Kristen; Olsen, Holly – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2010
Language-switching, attitude, and linguistic identity among 10th-grade female students in East Jerusalem are influenced by current political, social, and ethnic conflicts. The students make decisions to use English, Hebrew, and Arabic--the 3 regional languages--based on issues of hegemony and social influences. Participants in this study track…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language)
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Crothers, Laura M.; Field, Julaine E.; Kolbert, Jered B. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between gender identity and relational aggression. Women's relationships are instrumental in the establishment and maintenance of a positive self-concept and identity, yet relational aggression is a common aspect of female friendships. The authors investigated this role conflict, focusing…
Descriptors: Females, Friendship, Aggression, Adolescents