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'You Are a Male Teacher but You Have a Woman's Heart': Foundation Phase Teachers Negotiating Identities in South Africa
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Msiza, Vusi – Education 3-13, 2020
The paper seeks to demonstrate how societal constructions and gender policing inform male teachers' identities in the schooling context of Foundation phase teaching in South Africa. This is a phase that has been historically dominated by women and is often regarded as a 'women only' space. The study was conducted using a case study methodology and…
Descriptors: Males, Sex Role, Professional Identity, Gender Differences
Houston Real Men Read: What Was the Experience of Mentors during the Sixth Year of the Program, 2014? Evaluation Report. Volume 8, Issue 1
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Muñiz, Deborah L. – Houston Independent School District, 2014
Houston Real Men Read is chaired by Texas Senator Rodney Ellis and spearheaded by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board Trustee Paula M. Harris. Houston Real Men Read is a mentoring program in which men from the Houston community committed one hour, once a month, to read to second, fifth, and seventh-grade students. The program…
Descriptors: Mentors, Males, School Community Programs, Grade 2
Houston Real Men Read: What Was the Experience of Mentors and Students during the Fifth Year of the Real Men Read Program, 2013? Evaluation Brief. Volume 7, Issue 2
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Muñiz, Deborah L. – Houston Independent School District, 2013
Houston Real Men Read, chaired by Texas District XIII Senator Rodney Ellis and spearheaded by Houston Independent School District (HISD) IV Board Trustee Paula M. Harris, is a mentoring program in which men from the Houston community committed one hour of their time, once a month, to read to second, fifth, and seventh-grade students. The reading…
Descriptors: Mentors, Males, School Community Programs, Grade 2
Youth Assets and Sexual Risk Behavior: Differences between Male and Female Adolescents
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Mueller, Trisha; Gavin, Lorrie; Oman, Roy; Vesely, Sara; Aspy, Cheryl; Tolma, Eleni; Rodine, Sharon – Health Education & Behavior, 2010
Youth internal assets and external resources are protective factors that can help youth avoid potentially harmful behaviors. This study investigates how the relationship between youth assets or resources and two sexual risk behaviors (ever had sex and birth control use) varied by gender. Data were collected through in-home interviews from…
Descriptors: Role Models, Contraception, Females, Prevention
Leveraging Gender Differences to Boost Test Scores
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Costello, Bill – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
According to the 2004 National Assessment of Educational Progress, males who have made it through 12 years of school have significantly poorer reading skills than their female peers. In every age group, boys have been scoring lower than girls annually for more than three decades on U.S. Department of Education reading tests. The longer boys are in…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Age Differences, Reading Tests, National Competency Tests
The Development of Occupational Aspirations and Expectations among Inner-City Boys.
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Cook, Thomas D.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Interviewed boys in grades two through eight about their occupational aspirations. Found that aspirations of inner-city boys mirrored race and class differences in adult job holdings; the gap between aspirations and expectations was greater for inner-city boys than other boys; and lower occupational aspirations of inner-city boys were related to…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students