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Kjaran, Jón Ingvar – Gender and Education, 2019
Organization of spaces in schools often revolves around gender and sexuality. For example, it has been reported that restrooms and locker rooms are the most heteronormative and heterosexist spaces within schools. Particularly within these spaces, hegemonic heterosexual masculinity/femininity is institutionalized, not only in the practices and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, High School Students, Power Structure, LGBTQ People
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Kaleva, Satu; Pursiainen, Jouni; Hakola, Mirkka; Rusanen, Jarmo; Muukkonen, Hanni – International Journal of STEM Education, 2019
Background: Despite the increasing need for STEM skills, to date, the connection between STEM subject choices and their impact on students' educational pathways has not been widely studied. Focusing on the mathematics choice (basic/advanced/no mathematics), a large register dataset that covered students admitted to Finnish universities during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, College Bound Students, High School Graduates
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Nasser, Ramzi; McInerney, Dennis – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study investigated the relation between motivational goals and university intentions, school valuing and school achievement. The premise of this study is that motivational goals play a key role in academic values and achievement. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to establish the construct validity of the motivational measures drawn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Kulick, Alex; Wernick, Laura J.; Espinoza, Mario Alberto V.; Newman, Tarkington J.; Dessel, Adrienne B. – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
School-based sports and physical education play an important role in the development of youth (Jones, Edwards, et al., 2017), but participation in athletics is unequal for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth compared to their straight/cisgender peers [Greenspan, S. B., Griffith, C., & Murtagh, E. F. (2017). LGBTQ…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Athletics, Student Participation, Physical Education
Levinson, Meira, Ed.; Fay, Jacob, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
Teaching in a democracy is challenging and filled with dilemmas that have no easy answers. For example, how do educators meet their responsibilities of teaching civic norms and dispositions while remaining nonpartisan? "Democratic Discord in Schools" features eight normative cases of complex dilemmas drawn from real events designed to…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Problem Solving, Cooperation
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Kimball, Jessica; Jenkins, Jayne; Wallhead, Tristan – European Physical Education Review, 2009
The purpose of this study was to use the Lifelong Physical Activity (LLPA) framework to examine the influence of high school physical education (PE) on university students' level of physical activity (PA). Participants included 365 undergraduate students from the Rocky Mountain West of the USA enrolled in a university physical activity course.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, High Schools, Physical Education, Physical Activity Level