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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between self-esteem and empowerment of women in fertility

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2017
Background and purpose: Empowerment is considered as one of the health efficiency components and is regarded as a personal right. In the Millennium Development Goals there is a particular focus on women's empowerment.
Zahra Kiani, Masuomeh Simbar, Mahrokh Dolatian, Farid Zayeri   +3 more
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Women’s Autonomy in the Context of Rural Pakistan [PDF]

The paper explores the elements that constitute women’s autonomy in rural Pakistan. Hitherto most research on women’s status in Pakistan has either been restricted to proxy measures of women’s status generally or to the urban areas.
Shahnaz Kazi, Zeba Ayesha Sathar
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Gender empowerment through ICTs: potential and challenges for women in the Caribbean [PDF]

, 2006
Information communication technologies (ICTs) have been promoted as tools for national development and for gender empowerment in many developing countries. In the Caribbean, governments, non-governmental organizations and training institutes play a key
Muturi, Nancy W.
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Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania

Global Food Security, 2019
This paper presents a mixed-methods study that examines the relationship between women’s empowerment, household food security, and maternal and child diet diversity (as one indicator of nutrition security) in two regions of Tanzania.
A. Galiè, N. Teufel, A. Girard, I. Baltenweck, P. Dominguez-Salas, M. Price, Rebecca E. Jones, B. Lukuyu, L. Korir, Ilana G. Raskind, Kristie N. Smith, Kathryn M. Yount   +11 more
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Youth activism in Poland: Perceptions, participation and diverging perspectives from young people and activists

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian, Miri Yemini, Katarzyna Jasikowska   +2 more
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Making teaching an attractive profession: What are the challenges and opportunities for minority ethnic teachers in England?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the challenges and opportunities surrounding the recruitment and retention of minority ethnic teachers in England. Drawing on interview data from 33 teachers and school leaders of diverse ethnic backgrounds, it investigates whether racialised barriers identified in earlier research have shifted in the current context of ...
Antonina Tereshchenko, Feyisa Demie, Stephen Gorard, Yiyang Gao, Beng Huat See, Nadia Siddiqui   +5 more
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Applying the structural equation model approach to study the simultaneous relationship between women’s empowerment and mental disorder in Egypt

BMC Women's Health
Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to examine whether women’s empowerment and mental disorder affect each other in a one-way or two-way simultaneous relationship.
Hassan H.M. Zaky, Dina M. Armanious, Maria A. Kalliny   +2 more
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Waqf microfinance as an alternative and sustainable government empowerment tool towards women in Northern Nigeria: a perceptional analysis [PDF]

Journal of Business and Socio-Economic Development
PurposeThe study investigates the perception of Northern Nigeria’s women toward addressing unemployment and enhancing microeconomic activities using the uniquely proposed Waqf microfinance model.Design/methodology/approachThis quantitative study relies ...
Tijjani Muhammad, Fahd Al-Shaghdari
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Providing a Gender Perspective to Integration in Western Europe. Muslim Women\u2019s Agency between Multicultural and Assimilationist Policies [PDF]

, 2018
While scholars have tried to assess the presumed increase of the civic integration approach and the failure of multiculturalism in Western Europe, little research has been conducted to uncover the ways in which these two understandings of integration ...
Ghanem, CRISTINA YASMIN
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