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Reconstructing Masculinity and Power in Africa through Open Distance Learning for Sustainable Development: A Critical Analysis of Wole Soyinka's "Climate of Fear"
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Adetunji, Barihi; Adesida, Aderonke Adetunji – Online Submission, 2009
The strabismus conception of masculinity and power with its manipulation as reflected in the consequences of actions endorsed and demonstrated by leaders, followers, citizens as individuals and groups at different times in the past, and present has been a major source of the seemingly quiescence and underdevelopment in Africa. Masculinity has…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Distance Education, Ideology, Discourse Analysis
Exploring "Girl Power": Gender, Literacy and the Textual Practices of Young Women Attending an Elite School
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Charles, Claire – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
Popular discourses concerning the relationship between gender and academic literacies have suggested that boys are lacking in particular, school-based literacy competencies compared with girls. Such discourses construct "gender" according to a binary framework and they obscure the way in which literacy and textual practices operate as a site in…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Womens Education
The Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education. The Jossey-Bass Education Series.
2002
These papers examine various perspectives on the gender debate in education: (1) "'Too Strong for a Woman': The Five Words That Created Title IX" (Bernice R. Sandler); (2) "Feminists Discover the Hidden Injuries of Coeducation" (David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot); (3) "Images of Relationship" (Carol Gilligan); (4)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Bullying, Coeducation