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Tabatadze, Shalva; Gorgadze, Natia – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore gender equality in school textbooks in Georgia. Design/methodology/approach: The research had the following questions: To what extent are women and men visible and represented equally in school textbooks? How do school textbooks promote gender socialization of boys and girls to be treated equally in terms of…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Sex Fairness, Socialization, Content Analysis
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Zumrad Kataeva – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
The underrepresentation of female faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines is a globally acknowledged gender equity concern; however, it remains under-researched in post-Soviet contexts. Using a theoretically informed analysis, this paper explores how female STEM faculty members navigate their gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, STEM Education, Gender Discrimination
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Happy Nkambule; Juliet Perumal – Review of Education, 2024
This paper presents results of a systematic research synthesis of 23 studies on female leadership in Eswatini. The review aimed to present conclusions drawn from synthesising findings from studies on women's participation in leadership in Eswatini. Systematic methods were used in the review to identify the 23 research studies focusing on female…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Power Structure, Gender Issues
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Andersson, Elias; Johansson, Kristina – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2022
The relation between the concepts and practices of gender mainstreaming and organisational learning, and its prerequisite for change, is not well understood in either research or practice. Drawing on a participatory design process of a model for assessing the potential of gender equality interventions to change gendered organisations, this study…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Gender Bias, Sex Fairness, Gender Issues
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Ayodeji P. Ifegbesan; Razaq O. Azeez – Journal of Education, 2024
The World Value Survey wave 6 was analysed to examine the relationship between gender and perceptions of gender roles among Nigerians. Descriptive and inferential statistics like frequency distribution, percentage, t-test, ANOVA and stepwise regression were used. The study found out that there is a positive relationship between gender and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Role, Sex, Gender Issues
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Reynolds, Pauline J.; Henderson, Emily F. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Across the contemporary global higher education sector, there is an increased focus on gender and the academic profession, particularly inequalities. Previous studies construct a clear picture of the academy as an unfriendly profession for women, particularly highlighting the challenge to 'belong'. A growing body of literature demonstrates how…
Descriptors: Sex, Gender Issues, Power Structure, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Kauli, Jackie; Thomas, Verena – Research in Drama Education, 2022
International development partnerships are characterised by inherent power relations with community partners often seen as needing assistance in fixing their problems. In this paper, we discuss the limitations of this perspective on the example of gender equality in the Pacific. We explore applied theatre tools to work with a variety of…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, International Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Power Structure
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Cahill, Helen – Gender and Education, 2022
Little has been written about how to bring feminist theory to pedagogical design, such that school students can engage with concepts such as power relations, governmentality, performativity, intersectionality, or affective assemblage. However, these concepts provide powerful thinking frames for activating insight into the shaping nature of gender…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Feminism, Educational Theories, Instructional Design
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Khalid Arar – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
As an academic counselor of four schools coping with social and educational challenges in the Palestinian education system in Jerusalem, I chose to direct the spotlight on the case of a high school serving mainly Muslim students, to observe how gender issues were reflected in the school's activities to shape an experience of equity for male and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Practices, Social Problems, Barriers
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Navjeet Sidhu Kundal; Garima Singh – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2024
This paper examines the gendered experiences of female students in Indian law schools, highlighting the influence of societal norms and patriarchal expectations on their education and career choices. Despite the growing presence of national universities offering legal education, women continue to face significant challenges rooted in traditional…
Descriptors: Females, Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools, Indians
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Acheson, Gillian; Holland, Austin; Oettle, Susannah – Journal of Geography, 2020
Research indicates that textbooks play an important role in determining course content and influencing students' impressions of a discipline. Photographs are particularly powerful because they appear as actual representations, and students can often recall them better than text. This study examines the photographs of six introductory human…
Descriptors: Females, Photography, Textbook Content, Human Geography
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Esin Kumlu – SAGE Open, 2024
Depending upon Paulo Freire's notion of critical consciousness (CC), this study investigates how the comparative analysis of traditional and non-traditional European fairy tales could impact the development of critical consciousness in pre-service English teachers and how they can use this skill for social change in their professional lives. Data…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Sex Fairness, Critical Theory
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Sinacore, Ada L.; Chao, Shu-Chu; Ho, Jennifer – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2019
In 2004, the Taiwanese government enacted the Gender Equity Education Act (GEEA) to address the increasing number of gender inequity incidents on school campuses. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine faculty and staff's perception of the implementation of GEEA and its influence on the school community. Results indicated that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Sex Fairness, Gender Issues
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Nordvall, Henrik; Wieslander, Malin – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2019
Feminist educators often encounter different forms of resistance from both male and female participants. This article uses a neo-Gramscian theoretical perspective to discuss the importance of considering this resistance when analyzing the relationship between pedagogical design and outcomes. The study draws on survey data and participant…
Descriptors: Feminism, Resistance (Psychology), Workshops, Gender Issues
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Wrench, Alison; Garrett, Robyne – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
Sports media are significant to the construction and representation of sports cultures and sporting bodies. They function as public pedagogies that frame knowledge and learning negotiated within and beyond physical education (PE) lessons. In this capacity public pedagogies of sports media inform young people's understandings of themselves and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Athletes, Physical Education
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