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Mim, Shamnaz Arifin – Gender and Education, 2022
Despite the existing gender stereotypes associated with science and masculinity, there are some female teachers in secondary co-educational schools in Bangladesh who are contesting this normative discourse by taking up a profession in the science field. This research is an attempt to make visible lived gendered experiences of female science…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Masculinity, Women Faculty, Females
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Huuki, Tuija; Kyrölä, Kata – Gender and Education, 2023
In this article, we examine the immensely popular animated Disney film "Frozen 2" (2019) through its potential as decolonial queer pedagogy. Drawing on Indigenous educational studies, queer and feminist Indigenous theories, and research on affect and trauma, we ask how the film popularizes Sámi nature-based cosmologies, addresses and…
Descriptors: Films, Animation, Popular Culture, Indigenous Knowledge
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O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee – Gender and Education, 2022
This essay draws from four years of ethnographic fieldwork with women activists in self-defined Paulo Freirean-based popular education schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rather than leaning on the traditions of education activism, modeled on Freire's class-based emancipatory vision, the women in this study sought to turn popular education's focus…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Activism, Feminism, Popular Education
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Kostas, Marios – Gender and Education, 2021
Gender-normative discursive representations in textbooks could have deleterious impacts on pupils' gender identity development. This study sets out to explore the discursive construction of femininity and masculinity in anthology textbooks for primary education and scrutinize children's sense-making of gender-normative discourses. Grounded in a…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Gender Bias, Masculinity
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Rifa-Valls, Montserrat – Gender and Education, 2009
In this article, the research findings of a deconstructive visual ethnography focused on the production of immigrant girls' identities will be analysed. This collaborative research project involved experimentation with a dialogic curriculum aimed at creating diverse identity narratives with immigrant girls at an urban primary school in Barcelona.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Females, Identification, Elementary School Students