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Carpenter, Katie – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
As educational opportunities for women and girls expanded in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, science and domestic subjects were increasingly linked. This article draws upon research from the history of education and women's history to examine how schools contributed to contemporary constructions of housework. It takes two case studies: the…
Descriptors: Housework, Females, Single Sex Schools, Foreign Countries
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Moreau, Marie-Pierre – Gender and Education, 2020
This article draws primarily on a dataset of 60 semi-structured interviews conducted with teachers working in English and French state-funded secondary schools. Informed by feminist sociological theories of work and education and a cross-national comparative perspective, it explores the mechanisms leading to the production of gender inequalities…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Sex Fairness, Secondary School Teachers, Feminism
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Head, Emma – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
This paper makes a contribution to the developing field of the political economy of educational technology and to an understanding of the significance of digital technologies for home-school relations. The digitalisation of social life is increasing and the impact of digitalisation on home-school relations, parents, and children is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Parent Participation, Family School Relationship, Information Technology
Chanfreau, Jenny; Tanner, Emily; Callanan, Meg; Laing, Karen; Skipp, Amy; Todd, Liz – Institute of Education - London, 2016
The aims of this working paper were to investigate whether taking part in out of school activities during primary school is linked with end of primary school attainment and social, emotional and behavioural outcomes, for all children and specifically for children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The analysis is based on the Millennium…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Primary Education, Academic Achievement, Social Development
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Fenge, Lee-Ann – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2009
Internationally there are growing numbers of migrant workers in the field of health who may represent an untapped resource in terms of workforce development. Although these workers often have higher-level skills and qualifications, they often find themselves in unskilled roles. This paper reports on a case study in the South West of England that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Workers, Housework, Health Services
Davies, Gwen; And Others – 1987
This kit consists of nine booklets: an introduction and eight topical texts, each of which is made up of excerpts from materials about the lives of women from Latin America, Africa, and England. The kit is intended for use by women in English-as-a-Second-Language classes, literacy groups, and other women's groups, as a source of ideas for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Battered Women, Change Strategies, Child Abuse