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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Discrimination in education"”.
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The Little Giant in the South - the Education of Blacks at Oakwood University, Alabama
… a critical commentary on a script for an educational video that utilizes elements of documentary filmmaking entitled The Little Giant in the South - The Education of Blacks at Oakwood University, Alabama. Taken together, the educational video script and the critical commentary represent an …
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Sexual harassment: Education and the law
… courts as a violation of Title VII's ban on sex discrimination in the workplace, it was also acknowledged as a violation of Title IX, which seeks to eliminate sex discrimination in education. Over time, an increasingly wide range of conduct has been recognized as ""sexual harassment""; the class …
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Phenomenological Experiences of First-Generation Working-Class Students Entering University: Motivational Factors and Teacher Influences
Discrimination in education over the last few decades has been apparent in the form of racial, gender, and even intergenerational prejudice. Educational inequities also exist for marginalized students of the first-generation working-class trying to access and successfully navigate post-secondary …
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Examining Girls’ Experiences of Discriminatory Practices in Ghanaian Secondary Education against International Human Rights Standards
Discriminatory practices abuses in schools are rarely viewed through the human rights perspective as this dimension is relatively new. The absence of systematically collected data further perpetuates the abuses (Tomaševski, 2001:43). The research examines how Ghana has complied with the human …
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The development of the right to education in international law
The thesis seeks to examine the historical development of the conception of the right to education from the sixteenth century until the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the child (1989). It approaches the subject by combining classical doctrinal research methods with historical research …
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Foreign trained teachers : the emergence of the right to practise their profession in Ontario
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of 2 recent legal events, specifically the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act (2006) and Siadat v. Ontario College of Teachers (2007) decision, with regards to the opportunity of foreign trained teachers to practice their profession in …
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Secondary school learners' attitudes towards sex education
The current investigation consisted of three aims. The first aim was to determine the nature of secondary school learners* attitudes towards sex education. The second aim was to determine the learners' attitudes towards sex education in relation to information given by parents, teachers, peers and …
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Do we really see the world in black and white?
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not there is a double standard of punishment between Black and White Americans and to evaluate the social perceptions of Black Americans in our society. Seventy-two teachers were given surveys concerning an eleven-year-old boy with aggression. …
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Emancipatory pedagogies in a grade 11 social studies classroom
This study aimed to uncover the incorporation of transformative pedagogies into the social studies curriculum. This educational approach aims to educate students about a variety of forms of oppression based on race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and culture, through the use of dialogue to …
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Second-Career Adults: Issues Encountered in Teacher Education Programs
The purpose of this case study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of 3 second-career males prior to and during their participation in teacher education programs. Case study research techniques were used to elicit data from 3 participants who had completed teacher education …
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AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF PERCEIVED FACULTY DISCRIMINATION AND NATIVE AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
Perceived faculty discrimination and its affect on Native American college undergraduate students' intrinsic motivation was explored. The following variables were studied, perceived faculty discrimination, family support, and intrinsic motivation in an attempt to gain insight on the changing Native …
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A Portrait of an Iowa Woman Superintendent: A Study of Attributes and Barriers for Women Assessing the Position of Superintendent in Iowa
The problem: 10.5% of the superintendents and 71 % of teachers in lowa are female. The problem for this study was to identify barriers that women face in accessing the superintendency and the attributes needed to overcome those barriers, in order to answer the question: What does it take to for a …
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The effects of nonjudgemental feedback on gender equity in teacher student interaction in primary school physical education
This study examined whether gender role dependent and independent teacher behaviours could be influenced by the provision of peer observation and nonjudgemental feedback. Sixteen Year 4/5 classroom teachers, eight males and eight females were selected and divided into two groups of eight, a control …
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Gender bias in the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study 2003 (TIMMS) for Canadian students /
… study is a secondary data analysis of the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study 2003 (TIMSS) to determine if there is a gender bias, unbalanced number of items suited to the cognitive skill of one gender, and to compare performance by location. Results of the Grade 8, math portion of the test …
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Sex-role stereotyping as characterized by selected samples of female and male high school coaches
<p>The general problem was to determine the relationship of sex-role stereotyping among a random sample of female and male coaches in Northern California as they perceived sample of males and females and male and female athletes.</p><p>The subproblems were: (1) To determine significant differences …
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