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Gender disparity in STEM education: a survey research on girl participants in World Robot Olympiad
Robotics competitions boosts the development of STEM education, but gender disparity in this field remains rarely addressed by researchers. This...
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An Analysis of COVID-19 Related Factors that Affect the Girl Child’s Access and Participation in Education
There have been remarkable efforts by scholars to examine the problem of gender inequalities in education, which has been working against the...
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Reimaging the Colonial Space: Femininity and Everyday Life of Girl Guides in Hong Kong, 1921–1941
On April 6, 1922, the Prince of Wales visited Hong Kong on his Far Eastern tour. The then 12-year-old Betty Steel, who was a Girl Guide, paraded for...
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Perceptions of empowerment and leadership in the context of outdoor education: a qualitative study in women participants
Gender inequality is a global challenge and leadership development and empowerment have the potential to effect change. Outdoor education programs...
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Bringing girls and women into STEM?: Girls’ technological activities and conceptions when participating in an all-girl technology camp
Bringing more girls and women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, is often highlighted as an aim in education and industry....
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Profile of the Participants
In this book, I explore the transition of participants to university life and their autonomy development in life, academic learning and their...
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Ethiopian Immigrants in the U.S.: Research Context and Participants
This chapter provides background on the research designResearch design for our study. It explains the context for the investigation, the...
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How are gender counter-stereotypical adolescents evaluated by their peers? Investigating the backlash effect in French schools
Research on the backlash effect has long studied the social sanctions that individuals impose on those who do not conform to stereotypical...
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Basic Demographics for Voices of Experience Participants
The demographics chapter takes a closer look at the participants in the core study focused on in this book. In total, 2500 people participated in the...
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School uniforms that hurt: an Australian perspective on gendered mattering
School uniforms are proliferating as a staple in figurations created of successful students around the world. In Australia the uniform as compulsory...
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The Educators’ Stories
This chapter shifts from exploring the educator participants’ contexts to highlighting their personal and professional stories about gender. These...
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Professional Development of Preschool Teacher Assistants in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts
The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a professional development (PD) program on preschool teacher assistants’ (TAs) attitudes toward...
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The Green Foam Ring and the Slee** Girl Who Wasn’t Tired: A Posthuman Story of Care
In this chapter, I explore some amoral careCareamoral processesCareas process that take placePlace outside human dyadicDyadic relationships in the...
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Connecting Community: Rural Girls Using an Arts-Based Digital Dialogue Tool to Address Gender-Based Violence
In a rural community under siege of gender-based violence (GBV), it is necessary to work together and to learn from each other to address a complex...
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Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum
In recent decades, several countries have made efforts to close the historic gender gap in physics through curricular reforms. Research indicates...
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Influencing factors on women in connection with engineering in New Zealand: a triad of lenses
There is a considerable lack of women in the engineering disciplines at tertiary level in New Zealand. This is an economic issue because innovation...
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The Early Childhood Educators’ Contexts
This chapter explores the context of early childhood educators in Australia. It provides an overview of research on early childhood educators’...
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The complexities of negotiating school choice for parents with gender diverse children
Understandings of gender diversity have increasingly recognised the rights and experiences of children and young people (Meyer & Pullen Sansfaçon,...
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Expanding Theories of Sociopolitical Development: Centering the Intersectional Experiences of Girls of Color in an Informal STEM Program
In this study, we bring the concepts of sociopolitical development and intersectionality into conversation to examine how girls of color can develop...
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Gender-based support systems influencing female students to pursue a bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery (MBBS) in Rwanda
BackgroundWhile Sub-Saharan Africa contains nearly one third of the global burden of disease, it only contains 3.5% of the healthcare workforce....