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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"female education"”.
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Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889-1931)
… dissertation examines the impact of religion on female access to education in Thailand from 1889 to 1931 -- the early Modernization Period in Thailand -- a critical time of advancement and modernization in the nation. Although Thailand had traditionally been a Buddhist nation-state, Protestant …
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"""A Better Guardianship"": Mothers, Surrogates, and Female Education in Domestic Literature, 1790--1860"
… on representations of the mother's role in female education, I identify in nonfictional and fictional texts produced between 1780 and 1870 both moments of critique and attempts to accommodate sentimental maternalism. This ambivalence registers a residual commitment to republican, …
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All Female Education: Self Image and Academic Success of Fourth Through Eight Grade Girls
… whether there are advantages in all female education, it is important to consider student perceptions within these all female schools. This study examines how young women in single sex institutions perceive their educational experience in four categories: academics, resources, …
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The development of female education in Northern Rhodesia, 1925-63 : the case of Central Province
… 1883-1925 marked the beginning of formal western education in Northern Rhodesia. Most of the education provided was for young men. Lack of emphasis on women at this stage had an adverse effect on the later development of their education. After 1925 the government of Northern Rhodesia worked …
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The development of female education in Northern Rhodesia, 1925-63 : the case of Central Province
… 1883-1925 marked the beginning of formal western education in Northern Rhodesia. Most of the education provided was for young men. Lack of emphasis on women at this stage had an adverse effect on the later development of their education. After 1925 the government of Northern Rhodesia worked …
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A Contextual Analysis of Female Education and Discursive Power in Margaret Cavendish's Dramas, the Female Academy and Youths Glory and Deaths Banquet
… have failed to appreciate the ambiguous, female response to seventeenth-century, male imposed gender constraints demonstrated in her work. Self-conscious of her own subjugation to male sanction in attempting to gain the fame she desires, Cavendish specifically uses her dramas The Female …
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Human resource development and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
… attrition in primary school is high, and the education does not respond sufficiently to labor market requirements, nor engender self-employment opportunities. Inadequate agricultural production, nutrition, health care, poor female education, and excessive population growth are major obstacles …
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The effect of education on female fertility behaviour in El Gebel El Akhder in Libya
… circumstances, particularly increased levels of female education, has influenced female fertility behaviour. This hypothesis was examined for the population of El Gebel El Akhdar, Libya.The study was based on a sample of 600 married women categorised by location (urban and rural), age (below and …
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Breaking Through Walls and Pages: Female Reading and Education in the 18th Century British Novel
… England as well as the conversations regarding female education in the 18th century. I show how Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, Frances Burney’s Evelina, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey depict education and reading in the novels. Novel reading is positive for the females in the novels, …
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Lady Jeune's Views on Victorian Culture, Society and Education
… participation in politics and the advancement of female education, and how her views represent a uniquely female and aristocratic perspective that has not been examined by contemporary scholarship. Numerous scholars have examined Victorian Hellenism as a masculine discourse, but the field has not …
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A cross sectional study to examine the association between perceived household educational support and HIV risk in adolescent females in a rural South African community
… of young women: one such factor is the role of female education in reducing HIV risk. Increasingly evidence suggests that female education (specifically secondary school and improved school performance) reduce HIV risk, teenage pregnancy and risky sexual behaviours (encouraging condom use and …
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An investigation of the relationships among homegardens, dietary diversity, and the nutritional status of children aged 0 to 5 in Indian households
… size, number of children in the household, female education, mother’s employment, and the size of the area that a household owns and cultivates, other things being equal. Religion, caste, and residence in different states seem to affect the presence of homegardens too. Household dietary …
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Female labour force participation amidst the reestablishment of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan 2021-2023
Afghanistan experienced a significant decline in female labour force participation (FLFP) from 17% in 2021 to 6% in 2022, concurrently with re-establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) in August 2021. Thus, this study aims to investigate the factors that could have contributed to …
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The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
… in More's tracts, Strictures on the System of Female Education, An Essay on St Paul and most especially Coelebs in Search of a Wife and in the case of Austen, on her prayers and select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular …
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Blended learning in Saudi Arabia girls' secondary schools :an exploratory case study
… as the first substantial study on BL insecondary education for girls in Saudi Arabia. Based on field work comprising interviewsand questionnaires this thesis reports the results of an exploratory, empirical case study of alarge-scale programme (Tatweer project) for the introduction of blended …
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Blended learning in Saudi Arabia girls' secondary schools : an exploratory case study
… as the first substantial study on BL insecondary education for girls in Saudi Arabia. Based on field work comprising interviewsand questionnaires this thesis reports the results of an exploratory, empirical case study of alarge-scale programme (Tatweer project) for the introduction of blended …
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A Stirling Education: Education in Antebellum Louisiana
… to understand how Louisianans’ value and support education. The antebellum period was chosen for study because it was arguably the last time period in which the South was not influenced or controlled by the dominant narrative of the Common School Movement, which Wayne Urban (1981) refers to as the …
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Three Essays On Migration, Remittances And Human Capital Formation
… lower the contribution of private investment in education to human capital accumulation in the source countries, the higher the likelihood that exposure to international migration negatively impacts economic growth if migration is sufficiently high. The level of efficient government expenditure …
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Historical analysis of vocational education in Nepal
… of this research was to analyze the vocational education plans of Nepal through an historical study by identifying their successes and failures. The specific objectives of the study were (a) to provide an historical background of general education and vocational education, (b) to analyze the …
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