The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore African American female students' beliefs, and self-perceptions about their mathematics experiences. This study used mathematics autobiographies, focus group interviews and individual student interviews to generate data that w…
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For decades after independence many African nations have invested a significant portion of their national budget into education development. Global enrollment rates however, are still low in many Sub-Saharan countries. Moreover, the enrollment rate hides gender disparity and con…
Despite an influx of refugees into the United States during the last few decades, there has not been a parallel growth in the study of refugees there. Further, most studies of refugees remain under the rubric of ‘immigrant’ studies, and sometimes even non-immigrant minority stud…
This study used narrative inquiry to investigate the construction of self-identity by fifteen incarcerated female adolescents involved in a story-telling program in a Midwestern state juvenile detention facility. A combination of critical theory, feminism, and the Islamic religi…
La scolarisation des filles en Guinée française, plus précisément au Fouta-Djallon, est l'objet de la présente thèse. L'imposition de cette institution coloniale a provoqué l'émergence d'un modèle culturel qui a bouleversé l'équilibre interne de la société dans son ensemble. Les…
This study investigated factors that affect parents' decisions to send their girls to school, in contrast to their boys, in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. Though arguments for girls' education are compelling, more girls are still out of school in most developing countr…
This study was designed to investigate the relationships between the creative thinking abilities of originality, fluency, and flexibility, and specific characteristics of classroom environment as perceived by tenth grade female students and their Arabic teachers. Such factors in…
Muslims have the starring role in the mass media’s curriculum on otherness, which circulates in-between local and global contexts to powerfully constitute subjectivities. This study inquires into what it is like to be a female, Muslim student in Ontario, in this post 9/11 discur…
The education of young girls in Senegal is affected by low admission and completion rates. This study unveils some of the socio-economic factors relating to the schooling of females in rural Muslim areas; it focuses on Fouta Toro, Senegal. Despite certain measures which aimed at…
Introduction: Obesity has become a major world-wide health issue. Social-economic status, physical activity levels and dietary intake may influence the weight status in children. However, these issues have not been examined together in studies of young girls in Saudi Arabia. Aim…
During the final decades of the nineteenth century girls' culture flourished. As recent scholarship has shown, this culture pivoted on an engagement with fiction and particularly the periodical press. Magazines such as the Girl's Own Paper and the Monthly Packet provided spaces …
Early adolescence is when many physical, biological and psychological changes occur. Among the many transition events going on at this time is the move from elementary to middle, junior high and high school. It is at this critical time that adolescents begin to question their id…
The main purpose of this research was to examine and describe the factors and attitudes that influenced sports participation among adolescent girls in Kenya. The research questionnaire was surveyed among adolescent girls 12-16 years (N=3942) in ten tribes residing in ten Distric…
The multiple roles of women educators as cross-cultural intermediaries in the realm of language, literacy, dress, employment, and social action are examined in the hybrid Muslim-Jewish culture of Tunisia. Educated in Paris, the women served as catalysts of change at the Alliance…
The dissertation examines the critical issues of ethnic and gender identities through the lives of Fulani girls in New York City (NYC), and, in a public international high school in the City exploring their efforts to fit-in within their multiple worlds while at the same time ma…
This case study assesses the educational needs of the teachers, students and women of a remote, isolated school community in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It also addresses the cultural, social and religious obstacles that girls, women and teachers face, while identifying appropriate …
Scope and method of study . This cross-sectional study investigated the extent and severity of protein energy malnutrition and deficiencies of vitamin A, iron, iodine and zinc nutrition in 10 - 15 year old school girls from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia using anthropometric, biochem…
The recent emergence of girls' and mixed-gender gamelan ensembles in Bali within a historically male-dominated field of performance heralds a fundamental shift in how people think about gender roles, and in how children learn "appropriate" gender behavior through music education…
Abstinence as a protection against STD and unwanted pregnancy is highly promoted by public health and health education professionals. However, few studies of abstinence have focused on abstinence within the context of partnerships, particularly as relationships change over time.…