Browse by keyword "Women's issues"
91. Free Space: Consciousness Raising and CCLOW (1990)
Women's Education des femmes, March 1990 - Vol. 7, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Shauna Butterwick
CCLOW is a national feminist organization which promotes the empowerment of women through education. What kind of education leads to empowerment?
In this article, the author "re-visits" the origins and principles of consciousness raising groups, considered to be the foundation of the women's movement and of feminist pedagogy.
Added: 2004-08-03
92. From the Straight Shore to the Labrador: Women's Studies as a Distance Education Course (1987)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1987 - Vol. 5, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Joanne Prindiville, Cathryn Boak
In this article, the authors examine the effects of women's studies, offered through distance education, on the women who participate in the course.
Added: 2004-08-05
93. From Bride Price To Platitudes: A Cross-Cultural Look at Women in Education (1990)
Women's Education des femmes, June 1990 - Vol. 8, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Jody Hansom
The author's premise in this article is that education in general, and literacy in particular, are gender issues. What, exactly, is the difference between the West African practice of not paying girls' school fees, and the Canadian message to female students to limit their educational horizons? Isn't the Canadian man who refuses to parent in the evening while his wife attends classes helping to deny her access to education?
Added: 2004-08-03
94. Gaining Visibility: Older Women and Education (1990)
Women's Education des femmes, Autumn 1990 - Vol. 8, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Sharon Harold
In this article, the author discusses the growing number of aging women in Canada and the lack of educational opportunities available for this group. Aging women are still the "invisible majority" of elderly in Canada, despite their increasing numbers. Current educational opportunities for older women are almost nonexistent. Older women have been socialized to have low expectations of what is available to them in the way of educational programming. And older women often have low expectations of themselves - they experience feelings of being "too old", "too dumb" or of it being "too late".
Added: 2004-07-29
95. Gender and Math: Putting Differences in Perspective (1996)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1996 - Vol. 12, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Meredith Kimball
In this article, the author examines gender differences in achievement among mathematics students, and the importance of changing negative perceptions.
Added: 2004-07-29
96. Get Real! Developing Curricula that Respond to Women's Lives (1994)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1994 - Vol. 11, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Marie Barton
A research project was undertaken by the author, with the assistance of a group of women, adult students from a Personal Life Management course the author was facilitating. The purpose of the research project, with the help of the group of women, was to develop a list of strategies, or anything that would be helpful to teachers who are aware of violence in the lives of children they teach, but unsure as to what, if anything, they could offer.
The group of women made suggestions on what teachers could do. In this article, three of these suggestions are discussed: teacher training, continuing of contact with personnel, and women's studies courses in secondary school.
Added: 2004-08-05
97. Go For It (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1991 - Vol. 9, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Rachel Zimmerman
When this article was written, the author was a grade thirteen student in Ontario. She describes her positive experiences with science fairs in school, and her passion for science.
Added: 2004-08-13
98. Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: A Not-So-Trivial Pursuit (1993)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1993 - Vol. 10, No. 3/4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Pat Armstrong
This questionnaire was intended to test the reader's knowledge of the connections between training, education and employment for women in the 1990's. At the end of the questionnaires, answers are presented, along with a number of conclusions, such as: lack of education and training could not explain rising unemployment, nor could unemployment (and under-employment) be solved with more education and training; the labour force was becoming feminized—that is, men's jobs were becoming more like women's jobs; i.e., less pay, more part-time work.
Added: 2004-08-13
99. The Good Mother (2006)
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Literacy Advice to Mothers in the Twentieth Century
Authors: Suzanne Smythe
Suzanne Smythe's theseis explores literacy advice to parents as a gendered practice of power rather than an institutional truth.
Quote from Conclusion: "This study is not concerned with the development of the “mother as teacher of literacy” as a teleological process, unfolding over time, but in the interplay of knowledge, relations of power, and social contexts that shape literacy advice discourses and the strategies and effects associated with them."
Added: 2006-10-20
100. Grab It Where You Can (1987)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1987 - Vol. 5, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Laura Jackson
How does a woman upgrade her education and skills when she lives in a remote northern community? When the only road winds 25 kilometers north-east to a couple of small villages on the lake? When the nearest university is several hundred kilometers away? And what happens when a woman has children at home, and no money to spare?
The author spoke to three such women of Labrador. For each one, ingenuity and imagination were part of the answer.
Added: 2004-08-05
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