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Feltham, Laura E.; Ryan, Charlene – Journal of Dance Education, 2022
The study explores the pedagogical practices employed by ballet instructors for engaging boys in ballet. Inclusive practices for gender non-conforming children in ballet are also considered. Four ballet instructors shared their experiences in semi-structured interviews. Findings indicate that male-focused strategies in both recruitment and…
Descriptors: Dance, Males, Gender Issues, Sexual Identity
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Jessica Prioletta; Adam W. Davies – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
In this article, the authors argue for a rethinking of kindergarten education from a critical feminist perspective. They illustrate how the devaluation and denigration of femininity and care - otherwise known as femmephobia - that permeates patriarchal societies is present in the seemingly innocent spaces of play in kindergarten. Tracing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Femininity, Power Structure
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Zhukovskyi, Vasyl; Kostiuk, Olha – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
The article deals with the issue of educational preconditions of gender education formation and development in Canadian secondary schools. On the basis of conducted scientific and pedagogical literature analysis it has been determined that gender education has undergone three main stages and is currently developing during its fourth, modern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Gender Issues, Educational Objectives
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Sangster, Sarah L.; Loy, Kara L.; Mills, Sheryl D.; Lawson, Karen L. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
In 2014, the Undergraduate Research Initiative at the University of Saskatchewan implemented a pilot project to organize, support, and promote curriculum-based research experience as an integral aspect of participating first-year courses. The framework for the course-based initiative was the research arc; usually in groups, students in these…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Research, Pilot Projects, College Faculty
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McGregor, Catherine – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
A persistent and troubling trend in teacher education programmes is how gender is constructed heteronormatively. Finding ways that challenge novice teacher thinking about gender and gender identities has proven to be difficult ([Grace, A. P., and K. Wells. 2006. "The Quest for a Queer Inclusive Cultural Ethics: Setting Directions for…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Gender Issues, Social Bias, Gender Bias
Reichert. Michael; Hawley. Richard – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
There is a pantheon of literature and popular panic pointing toward the academic ascent of girls and the decline of boys. On the contrary, the reality is different: Boys are learning and succeeding in many places. Two studies find that the places where boys excel have several common characteristics, including teachers who relate to the boys…
Descriptors: Males, Interpersonal Relationship, Learner Engagement, Teacher Role
Ryan, Thomas; Poirier, Yves – Online Submission, 2012
Our goal was to locate and evaluate the barriers that impact and cause females to avoid secondary elective physical education courses. We sought to find answers to stop the further decline of female enrolment in secondary physical education by looking into curricula, program and instructional variables. Anecdotal evidence informed this study which…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Females, Foreign Countries
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Sensoy, Ozlem – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
This study, situated in an inner-city school in Western Canada, involved 20 seventh graders producing photo essays about living with racism, classism, or sexism. Two questions guided the study: (1) How do students working with a critical pedagogue conceptualize their own experiences with race, class, and gender in ways that either interrupt or…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Critical Theory, Multicultural Education, Visual Aids
Niblett, Blair; Potvin, Leigh – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2010
Recently, the authors have been collecting data for a research project that explores secondary school boys' perceptions of masculinity. They spent a week in Leigh's grade 11 philosophy class discussing gender while observing and video recording students' perception for analysis. In their research, they used Colour Blind as a vehicle for unearthing…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Student Attitudes, Norms, Foreign Countries
Bowl, Marion, Ed.; Tobias, Robert, Ed.; Leahy, Jennifer, Ed.; Ferguson, Graeme, Ed.; Gage, Jeffrey, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning" reflects on current debates and discourses around gender and education, in which some academics, practitioners and policy-makers have referred to a crisis of masculinity. This book explores questions such as: Are men under-represented in education? Are women outstripping men in terms of…
Descriptors: Females, Educationally Disadvantaged, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
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Sokal, Laura; Katz, Herb – Australian Journal of Education, 2008
In response to concerns about boys' academic underachievement as well as the international gender imbalance in our teaching force composition, a call has been made to hire more male teachers and practice "boy-friendly" pedagogy. Our investigation of effects of male reading teachers and use of computer-based books demonstrated their…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Reading Achievement, Reading Teachers, Males
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Butler, Terry; Ryan, Peter; Chao, Tracy – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2005
Studies in gender have offered many reasons for the differing attitudes and skill levels that male and female undergraduate students possess when it comes to learning technology skills. Male and female students have differing learning styles influenced by such experiential factors as biology, historical inequalities, inconsistent political rights,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Information Technology, Gender Issues
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Nelson, Fiona – Across the Disciplines, 2004
It is the authors first day of class in a new tenure-track position. She is a sociologist who had been hired to teach Women's Studies at the University of Calgary, where she completed her master's degree some years before. At 9:00 a.m. she boarded the elevator in the basement of the building. The elevator stops on the main floor and the doors open…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Studies, War, Terrorism
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Van Heertum, Richard; Share, Jeff – McGill Journal of Education, 2006
A broader view of literacy has emerged as part of the larger debate about educational reform across the globe. Many now argue that availing children with additional skills in technological and media literacy will foster creativity, motivate youth, and improve their economic opportunities while increasing the core of high skilled labourers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Economic Opportunities, Educational Change
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
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