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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Schoolgirls"”.
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Pubertal development in urban Xhosa schoolgirls
The present study was performed in order to update available data on puberty in South African women gathered from studies among a variety of South African population groups and to compare our findings with these previous studies in order to identify any change. In addition, the children's social …
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Pubertal development in white and coloured urban schoolgirls
The aim of this study was to compare pubertal development between the two main ethnic groups in the Cape, controlling for social class. This study aimed to investigate: 1. The age of menarche and other stages of pubertal development of white and coloured school girls living in greater Cape Town. 2. …
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The political socialisation of schoolgirls in England, 1870-1914
… of politics in the period by showcasing schoolgirls’ active participation in parliamentary, electoral, suffrage, and imperial politics. Educational histories have either focused on boys as future citizens or, more often, neglected juvenile politics altogether. Instead, this study …
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Country Schoolgirls: A Study of Rural Women and the Rise of Public Education, 1820-1914
This thesis explores the rise of public education, its influence on rural society, and the ways that farmwomen used schooling for a variety of purposes. Throughout the nineteenth century, more opportunities for women appeared as communities in the mountainous areas of West Virginia and Pennsylvania …
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Assessment of sexual behaviour and knowledge of HIV amongst adolescent schoolgirls in a rural district in Zambia
… the sexual behaviour patterns of adolescent schoolgirls and the level of knowledge they have with regard to the prevention and transmission of HIV infection, as well as to determine which factors are associated with their various sexual behaviour patterns. A cross-sectional descriptive survey …
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Bush Allowance: A Phenomenological Study on Sexual Exploitation of Schoolgirls by Male Teachers in Rural Schools in Northern Ghana
… of opportunities to have sexual relations with schoolgirls, as incentives for enduring the hardships of rural life. The practice of bush allowance begs two legitimate questions: what are its causes and how could it be addressed effectively? This phenomenological study explored these questions …
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Making the Maasai Schoolgirl: Developing Modernities on the Margins
… study of identity formations among Maasai schoolgirls in southern Kenya, then, is designed to shed some new theoretical light on life as a target of these goals. In this dissertation, I consider the lived experience of development in the form of formal schooling from the subjective point of …
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(School) girl power : the construction and contradiction of the cultural figure of the schoolgirl across contemporary popular culture
… were held to demonstrate model citizenship. With schoolgirls being representative of almost all women and girls, the figure amassed popularity and is a repeated subject of media texts. However, despite representing adolescent girls, the “schoolgirl trope” has inflicted sexual meaning onto the …
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The effect of pregnancy on a schoolgirl’s education
… for the high prevalence of pregnancy amongst schoolgirls. Research conducted during 2011 in South Africa has found that by the age of 18 years more than thirty percent (31,5%) of girls have given birth at least once. At a meeting on June 2012, the MEC for education in KwaZulu-Natal …
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Significance of the anthropometric factor in young female volleyballers´ physical abilities, technical skills, psychophysiological properties and performance in the game
… second control group consisted of 586 ordinary schoolgirls aged 13–16 years with whom full anthropometry was provided. Results In order to systematize all anthropometric characteristics, we first studied the essence of the anthropometric structure of the body as a whole. It turned out to be a …
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Secondary schooling for girls in rural Uganda: challenges, opportunities and emerging identities
… 2005) ethnographic case study of 15 adolescent schoolgirls attending a secondary school in a poor, rural area of Masaka District, Uganda which explores the challenges, opportunities and potential for future identities that were associated with secondary level education. This study includes an …
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School-based interventions into effects of school girl pregnancy on teaching and learning in Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… to support enrolled pregnant and parenting schoolgirls to cope with schooling.
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Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
… publications. The texts of these schoolgirls can be construed as epideictic rhetoric, a form of persuasive discourse historically associated with prominent men delivering speeches of praise and blame that construct community. Using print as a podium, girls at four diverse secondary …
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Gender inequality in secondary education in Ghana
… I analyse the differential experiences of schoolgirls and how these gendered experiences impact on their performance, achievements, choice of subject and future aspirations from a gendered perspective, using the social construction of gender as a theoretical framework. It explores the ways …
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The Politics of Material Culture in the Early American Republic, c. 1800-15
… it shows how Black and white silversmiths, schoolgirls, potters, printers, needleworkers, artists, and more used their crafts to establish an aesthetic material language of the United States – and to assert their place within it – during the national mourning of Washington, the election of …
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Netizenship Politics: Youth, Anti-Americanism, and Rhetorical Agency in South Korea's 2002 Candlelight Vigils
… in the collective. In 2002, two South Korean schoolgirls walking along a rural road near Seoul were hit and killed by a U.S. military vehicle. The country's Internet users (called ""netizens"") belatedly learned of the incident and mobilized themselves for nation-wide candlelight vigils that …
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Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921
… would regularly deploy the image of Native schoolgirls being transformed through sentimental social values and literature, although very few students would ever experience the genteel cultivation being promised. The poetry and prose composed by the Native recipients of sentimental female …
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Smart girls : a deconstructive discourse analysis of smartness
This project is a deconstructive discourse analysis of smart girlhood. From a feminist post structural framework, with a focus on discourse and performative identity, I scrutinize three dominant discourses of smartness that are prevalent and academic and popular press. These constructions frame …
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Assessing the effectiveness of an obesity-prevention intervention to improve healthy lifestyle among Saudi school girls aged 9 to 16 : a feasibility study
… in order to prevent childhood obesity. Saudi schoolgirls were included in the current feasibility study, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. A sequential explanatory design was adopted, allowing sequential implementation of quantitative and qualitative components. Parent …
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