This report contains the following information in regard to the Women's Educational Equity Act: a brief description of the original and reauthorizing legislation, analysis of grant applications received and funded in the 1979 fiscal year, summaries of grant and contract awards for the fiscal year, and identification of products developed under project funding to be disseminated. Data presented in the statistical summaries of program efforts for fiscal 1979 include an analysis of applications...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Contracts, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Equal...
In the United Kingdom, these two perspectives on lifelong learning sit uneasily together: emphasis on adults in employment and a focus on diversity and widening participation in adult education. A recent emphasis on accreditation with implications for funding has affected diversity and participation objectives because involving assessment, certification, or accreditation tends to discourage participation. The major question for adult educators is how accreditation can be used appropriately to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Developed...
A collection of essays, book reviews, conference reports, poetry, and prose is presented. The collection first provides excerpts from articles and poetry presented at the Rural American Women (RAW) conference. Among other topics, these articles consider a vocational training program for economically disadvantaged women in eastern Tennessee; a cooperative, self-help organization established in Greensboro, Alabama; and the funding of programs for older, nontraditional students at Moberly Junior...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Book Reviews, College Programs, Feminism, Financial Support, International...
This study examines perspectives of Saudi university students regarding changing gender roles as affected by women's rights, education, employment, and activity in the public sphere. Results from a questionnaire distributed among 4,455 male and female students indicate students are confident and optimistic about improving gender equity, however resistance from those holding traditional views still exist. Female respondents are more optimistic than male respondents, seeing changes in gender...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Sex Role, Sex Stereotypes, College Students, Civil Rights,...
The role of women in India has undergone several changes over many years. Today women are emerging as self-reliant persons with equal status in all spheres of society, but they are still mostly employed in low-paid, low-skilled and low-status jobs. The emerging trends in technology indicate a greater need for the employment of many women, particularly in the skill-intensive and knowledge-intensive modern sectors. New educational policies and programs need to be formulated. Strategies must be...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Developing Nations, Educational Needs, Equal Education, Equal...
This set of curriculum modules contains geography learning activities that emphasize strategies to encourage young women in geography and social studies classes. Compiled in an effort to improve the motivation and achievement levels of students in geography classrooms, grades 7-11, the modules aim to boost academic performance and overall interest in geography, especially among female students of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. After an introduction, the series contains 7 units with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Females, Gender Issues, Geographic Concepts, Geography, Geography Instruction,...
Within the Tamale Metropolis, it is observed that only a few women occupy top level management positions within the Ghana Education Service (GES). A descriptive survey was therefore conducted in 2013/2014 academic year to assess the factors affecting the gender disparity in educational leadership within the Service. Specifically, the study sought to examine if factors such as low educational qualification, traditional beliefs and cultural practices were limiting to women leadership in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Females, Women Administrators, Questionnaires, Gender Differences, Employment...
Adult education encompasses diverse educational programmes to accommodate the diverse interest of the diverse clientele. The need-meeting nature of the programmes demands that adult education enterprise should be viewed from different perspectives. In this paper a framework sketching out programmes and offering agencies of adult education has been presented. The programs include: literacy, continuing education, extension education, women education, family education, business, commercial,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Literacy Education, Continuing Education,...
This special issue was developed by the Asian-South Pacific Bureau for Adult Education (ASPBAE) in preparation for Unesco's fourth international conference on adult education. A section on "Literacy--A Great Challenge and Important Debate" includes "Why Literacy? (Paul Fordham); "Cooperating or Campaigning for Literacy" (Heribert Hinzen, Jakob Horn, Wolfgang Leumer, Rolf Niemann); comments from Sri Lanka (W. M. K. Wijetunga), Bangladesh (Rezaul Haque), Indonesia (Pepep...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Community...
One of the challenges that we currently face in achieving universal education is how do we ensure that girls, who have missed the school bus or simply got off the bus too early, can still realise their right to quality basic education? This paper reviews several key education initiatives implemented in the last decade to reach out to the out-of-school children and young women in particularly difficult circumstances through condensed or short-term residential education programmes--also known as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Equal Education, Females, Acceleration (Education), Foreign Countries, Womens...
This investigation examines the student careers of 25 women who were enrolled as graduate students in sociology at the University of Michigan during 1967. Specifically, the study suggests that for those women with focused involvement and peripheral sex role orientation, the likely career pattern is continuation until Ph.D. completion and the most relevant variable set in decisions is academic experience. For those with divertible involvement and peripheral sex role orientation, the career...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Females, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Persistence, Sociology,...
The relationship of race to career orientation among college women as measured on an eight-point scale of expectations ranging from "housewife only" through part-time work to "not married; career only" is examined. Demographic, developmental, and attitudinal antecedents of career orientation among 28 black and 45 white SES-stratified university freshmen women were compared. Both racial groups were divided into high and low career expectations. Results indicate that although...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Students, Career Choice, Career Planning, College Students, Cultural...
This technical assistance guide contains information on sources to fund a comprehensive literacy component in an employment and training program. The section on public funding addresses federal and state funding, funding processes, and strictures on public funding. A section on private funding focuses on the two largest sources--foundations and corporations. Other funding sources in a program's community are then considered, including United Way campaign, churches, associations, and clubs. A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs,...
Popular discourses concerning the relationship between gender and academic literacies have suggested that boys are lacking in particular, school-based literacy competencies compared with girls. Such discourses construct "gender" according to a binary framework and they obscure the way in which literacy and textual practices operate as a site in which gendered identities are constituted and negotiated by young people in multiple sites including schooling, which academic inquiry has...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Females, Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Womens Education, Literacy, Feminism, Sex...
Career pathways align vocational and academic education within career clusters and provide students new options from grades 9-14. They must have the following elements: industry breadth and depth; opportunities for many populations; career options at entry, technical, and professional levels; and alternative delivery options and academic and vocational integration. Career pathways are important because all students need the following: rigorous academics and technical skills to be prepared for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Academies, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration, High...
This ethnographic compilation is the result of a course exercise in qualitative research. A current student of Texas Tech University interviewed an 87-year old faculty member from the 1950s, comparing her experiences to those of the author in similar, present-day academic environments. The author developed the format of the paper as letters between a young faculty member and her experienced grandmother. Results of the study reflect many similarities between the experiences of past female...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Womens Education, Womens Studies, Women Faculty, College Faculty,...
This article highlights one aspect of a case study of international educators at Dubai Women's College (DWC), United Arab Emirates (UAE). It examines perceptions of international educators in third space teaching female Emirati, higher-education students in the UAE. Drawing on third space theory (Bhabha, 1994), this study explored the nature of their hybridity and their accommodation processes. Findings reveal that these international educators in third space perceive the salient elements of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, English (Second Language), Arabs, Case Studies, International Education, Foreign...
This bulletin comprises a general survey in bibliographic form of current educational literature, domestic and foreign, received during the monthly period preceding the date of its publication. The publications are organized into the following topics: (1) Proceedings of associations; (2) Educational history and biography; (3) Current educational conditions; (4) Education and the war; (5) Educational theory and practice; (6) Educational psychology: Child study; (7) Educational tests and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Professional Associations, Kindergarten, Vocational Education, Career Guidance,...
This document contains the Girls' and Women's Education Project work plan and quarterly reports for 2001. The work plan outlines the objectives of the Girls' and Women's Education (GWE) Initiative contract; lists and describes the five activities (and sub-activities) planned for year 2001; and provides a schedule of activities for the year (a timeline presents the schedule in detail). The planned activities include: (1) establish effective communications among the Office of Women in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developing Nations, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Females,...
There is a major concern about the drop of young women entering Computer Science degree programs and a drop in the participation of women in these information technology occupations. In all levels of educational institutions across the nation, girls and women remain under-represented in computer and information science studies and subsequently, the technological workforce. Serious consequences occur not only to women's overall potential, which is not fully realized, but also to the world's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Females, Computer Science Education, Information Technology, Womens Education, Access...
This bulletin contains a list of general survey in bibliographic form of current educational literature, domestic and foreign, received during the monthly period preceding the date of publication of each issue. Books, pamphlets, and periodicals mentioned may ordinarily be obtained from their respective publishers, either directly or through a dealer, or, in the case of an association publication, from the secretary of the issuing organization. Publications are listed according to topic. Topics...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Administration, Bibliographies, Periodicals, Books, Professional Associations,...
This report examines why women in rural areas encounter particular difficulties in gaining access to out-of-school education. The report, based on a survey of UNESCO members, first attempts to describe the characteristics of rural areas, the size of their population, and the reasons for and the scope and impact of the exodus from the countryside in so far as women are concerned. The present situation with respect to the access to education of girls and women in rural areas is described....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agricultural Education, Change Agents, Developing Nations, Educational Opportunities,...
A study analyzed how a group of single welfare mothers, heads of households mandated to participate in a preemployment program with an educational component, viewed learning. Welfare policy makers assumed a highly illiterate population whose "deficiencies" would be remediated through participation in existing, voluntary basic education. Studies indicated, however, that a majority of such programs were not preparing the women for job entry. Because success was often contingent on the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Compulsory Education, Economically...
The theoretical model for economic development states that development in science and technology is the key to increased productivity. Upon realizing this, the Malaysian government has targeted 60 to 40 per cent of students for Science to Arts field at the tertiary level of education. However the rate of participation in science-based programs hardly achieved 60 percent even after more than four decades of efforts taken and incentives given by the government. Despite the policy's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Specialization, Women Faculty, Womens Studies, Graduate Surveys,...
The employment experiences of women in the United States between 1976 and 1985 are discussed generally in this report. Following a summary of major developments, the report is divided into six parts. The first part describes the economic aspects of changes in womens' economic status. Their labor force status is assessed and characteristics of women in the workplace and other labor force segments e.g., business ownership, farm work, apprenticeship, are described. Part 2 summarizes Federal policy...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agency Cooperation, Economic Status, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women,...
One of the long-standing priorities of the international community is to reduce gender disparity in developing countries. Yet, the overall picture is still gloomy: women continue to be excluded from access to resources and employment and are denied basic human rights. This Policy Brief explains why progress has been so minimal and what should be done about it. Recent Development Centre research (Morrisson and Jutting, 2004, 2005; Morrisson and Friedrich, 2004) has shown the institutional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Empowerment, Freedom, Females, Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Gender...
In the realm of continuing education, synergy, when used to mean a working together on all phases of human rights, implies the promotion of an adult education vehicle to eliminate the cultural lag in the status of women. Recent United Nations actions (such as the establishment of International Women's Year and the World Plan of Action's pressing for the full reconsideration of women's role in politics, education and training, employment and related economic matters, health and nutrition, family...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Employed Women, Employment, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females,...
The preliminary report provides suggestions for improvement and expansion of adult and continuing education programs, cultural enrichment, and guidance services to raise the educational and economic level of the Providence community. Short range goals emphasize meeting the needs of the lower income groups through Adult Basic education and English as a second language, high school equivalency, job retraining, womens education, and education for leisure and retirement. Long range goals include...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Advisory Committees, Cultural Enrichment, Educational...
The materials contained in this handbook provide one framework for organizing a self-evaluation under Title IX. Local education agencies will need to review and adapt these materials for effective use in the context of particular situations and needs. Separate chapters are presented on: access to general courses; access to physical education courses; access to vocational education courses; counseling; treatment of students; student marital or parental status; athletics; financial assistance;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Coeducation, Discriminatory Legislation, Equal...
Presented from a feminist perspective, the document describes five interactive phases of curricular revision. Each phase occupies a different level on a "broken pyramid" hierarchical structure representing different ways in which women are included in curriculum. In such a structure, winners are few and near the peak; losers many and nearer to the bottom. Examples from the study of history serve to describe the five phases. In phase 1, "womanless history" would be history...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Females, Feminism, Higher...
This paper is a report on a course to be offered by the author at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill entitled "Woman's History in the West." The author describes the difficulties she had in procuring information to present to her class. The course is outlined as follows: (1) the problems of studying woman's history; (2) the medieval woman; (3) early modern woman; (4) industrialization and its effects on women; and (5) the woman's liberation movement since 1850. An extensive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Females, Feminism, Higher Education, Sex Discrimination, Womens Education, Womens...
The 2 documents that form the body of this ACE Special Report were prepared in response to a large number of inquiries from the Council's members. The first summarizes the Presidential orders, the law, and pending legislation with respect to sex discrimination in higher education. The second describes a typical compliance review and deals with issues that have arisen as institutions have sought to comply with the legal requirements and to prepare affirmative action plans for the employment of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Equal Protection, Federal Legislation, Feminism, Higher...
This guide was written to help young women find their place in the world and move toward that place. Organized in two parts, the manual includes directions for the instructor and handouts for students (in eighth and ninth grade). Part 1 contains descriptions of activities and suggestions for using the activities with small groups of young women, in addition to directions for individual work. Some of the activities include writing an autobiography, rating interests, listing skills, discussing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning, Computer Software, Decision...
The project described in this report was designed to develop curriculum materials on gender equity issues for prospective teachers in education programs both at the University of Alaska and nationwide. Practicing teachers, together with university researchers, developed 10 teaching cases which present real-world classroom difficulties centering on gender issues, particularly the development of scientific and mathematical abilities in young women. This report summarizes project activities and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Curriculum...
Results of a project initiated to explore the development of data and services to member institutions of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities to meet needs of the 1980s are presented. The project explored contemporary concerns of institutional viability as they affect Catholic higher education. Information is provided on enrollment, financial operations, and student financial aid. Data on the performance of Catholic higher education against the background of the remainder of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, Coeducation, Comparative Analysis,...
This case study offers a perspective on the effectiveness of project-based bilingual curricula in empowering the adult English language learner. The purpose of this study is to examine the English acquisition process of adult Latina women who participate in a project based bilingual language program. The program uses techniques that include different learning modalities, instructional methods, and the appreciation of language building through real world experiences and skills. The sample...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, English (Second Language),...
I look at the changes in higher education (HE) and women's lives over the last 50 years, drawing on my recent book "Feminism, Gender & Universities: Politics, Passion & Pedagogies" which is a life history of feminism entering academe. The Robbins Report (cmnd 2154 1963) on HE was published in the same year that I went to university. It inaugurated a process of change and educational expansion that was linked to other major social transformations, including feminism. Its...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Womens Education, Equal Education, Higher Education, Females, Feminism, Educational...
As the ninetieth anniversary is celebrated, the idea of liberal education is more important than ever in the interdependent world. An education based on the idea of an inclusive global citizenship and on the possibilities of the compassionate imagination has the potential to transcend divisions created by distance, cultural difference, and mistrust. Developing this ideal further and thinking about how to modify it in the light of this times is one of the most exciting and urgent tasks that can...
Topics: ERIC Archive, General Education, Global Education, Citizenship Education, Cultural Differences,...
The New York State Guidance Center for Women is sponsored by Rockland Community College under contract with the State University of New York, and located just east of Suffern, New York. During its first year, the Center counseled 483 women and an additional 800 were served through its information services--library, career interest meetings, radio career information series (13 30-minute broadcasts), and a Careers for Women Workshop series. About 80 percent of the Center's clients come from...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advisory Committees, Anxiety, Community Relations, Counseling Services, Employed...
This booklet discusses the present state of environmental adult education and its major difficulties and shortcomings and develops recommendations for further development of this field. Section 1 discusses linking environmental and social issues and locating environmental problems within the context of one's daily life and action. Section 2 focuses on strengthening collaboration between environmentalists and adult educators. Section 3 addresses environmental education as a central theme for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Opportunities, Environmental...
This study estimates the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for 1970 to 1999. It also assesses the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking behavior, marriage, and fertility. In an effort to account for unobserved characteristics of women that could induce spurious correlation, the study pursues two distinct empirical strategies. First, it...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Child Health, Educational Attainment, Health Behavior, Higher...
Over the last two decades there has been a dramatic increase in continuing education enrollment among non-traditional-aged females both in Jamaica and overseas. This article explores the academic experiences of Jamaican women returning to college, placing emphasis on support services within the higher education institutions attended and on these women's successes, challenges and strategies for successful academic and social integration into the higher education environment. A narrative inquiry...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Nontraditional Students, Womens Education,...
Self-help education and self-help literature is important in the lives of African American adults, but the basic models of learning, development, and program planning in adult education have often been developed with little concern for the unique needs of African Americans. In addition, current theories of adult learning often lack understanding of culture and the role that race, economics, and gender play in the learning transaction. For example, some critics argue that three of the main...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adults, Afrocentrism, Blacks, Class...
The Association of University Evening Colleges held its 1969 conference in conjunction with the Galaxy Conference on Adult Education. Over 4,000 people representing 21 different organizations interested in adult education attended. Presentations dealt with the areas: learning to change, imperatives for action, the Nixon administration and continuing education, higher education, The Federal City College, the Middle East, the white racism. Problem clinics focused upon new opportunities,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Admission Criteria, Attitude Change, Budgets, Community Colleges, Conference Reports,...
While increasing numbers of women are attending college today, their professional opportunities remain limited and many types of discrimination exist. A major thrust to improve the role of women in academe is developing from diverse sources and one of these efforts is a survey conducted by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to document aspects of the role of women in higher education. Of AAUW's member institutions, 454 responded to a questionnaire which explored personnel...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment, Equal Education, Females, Feminism, Higher Education, Professional...
The purpose of the review reported here is to identify what has been and is being done in formally recognizing the educational and career relevance of the skills and competencies which women learn from their life experiences. Methodology noted includes survey of published literature and interviews with organizations, projects, and individuals to determine approaches and techniques for accrediting experience. Focus is on the kinds of learning that take place outside the usual formal instruction...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, College Credits, Course Evaluation, Employment Qualifications, Equivalency...
This study examined how education and postschool vocational training affect the type and extent of labor market participation of women in Peru. It also estimated monetary returns to different levels of schooling, to formal general and technical schooling, and to training. The sample, which comprised more than 5,600 women in urban and rural Peru, was drawn from the Peruvian Living Standard Survey. More than 70 percent of these women were in the labor force at the time of the survey, about 35...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Education Work Relationship, Elementary...
This handbook functions as a crown on the European Students' Union's work on gender equality over the past two years. Since the establishment of the Gender Equality Committee, a lot of work has been done to improve gender equality in higher education generally, and in student unions more particularly. This handbook gathers the experiences and lessons learned from that period of time, covering the most important political concerns as well as internal work for student unions. Politically, it has...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Females, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Student Unions, Gender Issues, Tuition,...
Education in Nigeria is an instrument par excellence for affecting national development. In spite of the global efforts to broaden opportunities in many schools all over Nigeria, many are not responding adequately to the needs of their students. A large majority of the learners do not acquire even minimal levels of learning due to such factors as poverty, malnutrition and different multi-cultural contexts, and many children still relegated to environments that discourage learning. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Females, Distance Education, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Access to...
The University of North Carolina (UNC) Mathematics and Science Education Network (MSEN) Pre-College program is designed to increase the number of historically underrepresented students--minorities and females--who have sufficient interest and preparation to pursue mathematics and science fields at the university level, and to move into careers in science, mathematics, technology, engineering, and teaching. The Pre-College Program provides students in grades 6-12 with rigorous academic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Objectives, Enrichment Activities, Institutional Advancement,...
