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A Tale of Two Schools: Educating Catholic Female Deaf Children in Ireland, 1846-1946
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O'Connell, Noel Patrick – History of Education, 2016
This paper discusses the contributions of the Dominican Sisters and Sisters of Mercy in running schools for female deaf children in Ireland during the period 1846 to 1946. The schools were established as part of an attempt to educate Catholics in the Catholic faith and provide literacy to female deaf children. In assuming the challenge of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Children
Mirrors for the Queen: A Letter from Christine de Pizan on the Eve of Civil War
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McCormick, Samuel – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2008
As a rhetorical figure, the example is constitutively split between the structural vocations of the Greek "paradeigma" (emphasizing illumination and belonging) and the Latin "exemplum" (emphasizing detachment and exclusion). This bifurcation enables the example to function as a strategic resource of ambiguity. Christine de…
Descriptors: War, Figurative Language, Social Change, Foreign Countries
Stereotype Threat among Schoolgirls in Quasi-Ordinary Classroom Circumstances
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Huguet, Pascal; Regner, Isabelle – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
There is ample evidence today in the stereotype threat literature that women and girls are influenced by gender-stereotyped expectations on standardized math tests. Despite its high relevance to education, this phenomenon has not received much attention in school settings. The present studies offer the 1st evidence to date indicating that middle…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Mathematics Achievement, Womens Education, Mathematics Skills
Young People's Least Ideals in Five Counties.
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Simmons, Cyril; Wade, Winnie – Educational Review, 1985
One hundred and seventy young people at four schools in Austria, France, Switzerland, and West Germany completed the unfinished sentence "The sort of person I would least like to be like..." The results of this continental survey are compared with an English survey, in which 820 15-year-olds at six schools completed the same test.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cultural Differences, Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Sociopsychological Factors in Alcohol Use among Adolescents in Israel, France, and the United States.
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Adler, Israel; Kandel, Denise B. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1982
Correlates of alcohol use were compared in France, with high prevalence of use; Israel, low prevalence; and the United States, in the middle. In all three countries, significant others--parents and peers--were more powerful predictors than personal attributes. The importance of parents in Israel and peers in the United States was shown. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Drinking
Une Exception Francaise: Les Grandes Ecoles (A French Exception: The Great Schools).
Kimmel, Alain – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
Examines the role of exceptional schools in France that have produced famous personages such as Charles de Gaulle and Jean-Paul Sartre. The schools reviewed include L'Ecole Nationale d'Administration, L'Ecole Polytechnique, L'Ecole Normale Superieure, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Saint-Cyr, and L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, National Surveys