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'If You Write Poems, It's Like a Crime There': An Intersectional Perspective on Migration, Literacy Practices, and Identity Curation
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Thériault, Virginie – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
This article offers an alternative point of view on the perspectives that large-scale literacy surveys provide on refugee women by presenting the case of Darya, a young Afghan woman who moved to Canada as a refugee in 2009. It also presents how a community-based organisation for young people addressed Darya's literacy and identity curation…
Descriptors: Literacy, Refugees, Females, Community Organizations
Comparing Students' Engineering and Science Aspirations from Age 10 to 16: Investigating the Role of Gender, Ethnicity, Cultural Capital, and Attitudinal Factors
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Moote, Julie; Archer, Louise; DeWitt, Jenifer; MacLeod, Emily – Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Background: Women (along with minority ethnic and low-income communities) remain underrepresented in engineering, despite a 30-year history of research and equality legislation. Compared with the United States and other European Union countries, this underrepresentation is particularly pronounced in the United Kingdom. While existing literature…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Students, Engineering Education, Occupational Aspiration
International Research Exposure: Impact on Early-Career, Undergraduate Engineering Students
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Preuss, Michael D.; Merriweather, Samuel P.; Walton, Shannon D.; Butler-Purry, Karen L. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The Texas A&M University (TAMU) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) office provided funding to the Texas A&M University College of Engineering to support student participation in the Engineering Learning Community Introduction to Research (ELCIR) program. ELCIR is a two-week, study abroad, research program…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Engineering Education, First Generation College Students
Increasing Participation of Rural and Regional Students in Higher Education
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Fleming, Michele J.; Grace, Diana M. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
Regional and rural students in Australia face unique challenges when aspiring to higher education. These challenges reflect systematic disadvantage experienced by rural and regional populations as a whole. In an effort to redress these inequities, and aided by the Australian Government's Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Rural Areas, Academic Aspiration, Gender Differences
The Economics of Adolescents' Time Allocation: Evidence from the Young Agent Project in Brazil
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Martinez-Restrepo, Susana – ProQuest LLC, 2012
What are the socioeconomic implications of the time allocation decisions made by low-income adolescents? The way adolescents allocate their time between schooling, labor and leisure has important implications for their education attainment, college aspirations, job opportunities and future earnings. This study focuses on adolescents and young…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Pregnancy, Gender Differences, Outcomes of Education
TIMSS 2011 International Results in Science
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Martin, Michael O.; Mullis, Ina V. S.; Foy, Pierre; Stanco, Gabrielle M. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2012
For more than 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has been conducting comparative studies of educational achievement in a number of curriculum areas, including mathematics and science. TIMSS 2011 represents the fifth cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS),…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Comparative Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis