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Direct linkHussain, Saba – Gender and Education, 2021
There appears to be a globally unifying discourse that suggests Muslim communities are not supportive of girls' education. This paper aims to destabilize such a discourse by inserting the narratives of Muslim parents pursuing girls' education in Assam's Nagaon district. By paying attention to the concepts of "bhal suwali" (good girlhood)…
Descriptors: Muslims, Females, Access to Education, Educational Attainment
Borker, Hem – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2020
Hem Borker performed field-based research in madrasa "Jamiatul Mominat," a residential girls' madrasa in Delhi, exploring the everyday lives of young girls studying in the madrasa. She interacted with a number of students and teachers in this madrasa. But there were few with whom she developed a bond during her journey from being a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Religious Education, Females, Residential Schools
Download full textSultana, Sharmin; Sarwar, Nadia – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper is going to argue that the selected poems of renowned Indian poet Kamala Das are inclined to relocate both feminine and masculine identity through the politicized representation of body. Kamala Das' representation of body in her poems has always been viewed as a medium of re-historicizing the pain, sufferings, and psychological trauma…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Poets, Femininity
Sullivan, Florence R.; Kapur, Manu; Madden, Sandra; Shipe, Stefanie – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
In this study, we examined whether gendered discourse styles were evidenced in online, synchronous, physics collaborative learning group discussions, and the extent to which such discourse patterns were related to the uptake of ideas within the group. We defined two discourse styles: the oppositional/direct style, theorized to be the socialized…
Descriptors: Discourse Modes, Discourse Analysis, Masculinity, Femininity
Fahey, Johannah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
Constructions of femininity and attendant notions of feminism are being produced in different ways in different places around the world. This is a complicated global process that cannot be reduced to analyses that take place in nation states. This paper seeks to respond to and enhance Angela McRobbie's compelling argument about understandings of…
Descriptors: Females, Femininity, Feminism, Global Approach
Chakravarti, Paromita – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2011
This paper examines the recent controversies surrounding the decision to introduce sex education in secondary schools in India to combat the rapid spread of HIV and AIDS in the country. While 11 Indian states have banned it, the Left-ruled state of West Bengal has designed a teachers' manual to impart sex education. However, a close analysis of…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Life Style, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
