Post-conflict settings often contain high levels of risk for war-affected girls, yet these same settings also support hope for them. In such contexts, what risks exist for girls and how do they construct responses to these risks? is article is based on an ethnographic study which included a cohort of fifteen girls who had been caught up in the decade-long war in Sierra Leone, a war noted for its gender-based viciousness. Having lived through horrific situations, a major task of these girls has been to make meaning of, and respond to, the risks existing within their post-conflict environments. Following an analysis of the current context of the lives of these girls, this article examines the risks the girls face in their daily lives and the strategies they employ as strength-based responses to these risks.
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In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 55–69 (15 total)
The Geopolitics of Environmental Education
An Analysis of School Textbooks in the MENA Region
Tobias Ide, Abdulkhaleq Alwan, Khalil Bader, Noureddine Dougui, Maysoun Husseini, Elarbi Imad, Farouk Gaafar Abdel Hakim Marzouk, Amany M. Taha Moustafa, and Riem Spielhaus
This article analyzes the geopolitical imaginations promoted via environmental education in the school textbooks of five states in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In doing so, it builds bridges between critical studies of education and political ecology. It shows that, when addressing environmental problems, the textbooks examined depoliticize environmental problems and sustain political and economic power structures. They do so by individualizing responsibility for environmental problems, legitimizing political and economic elites, associating environmental protection with wider societal goals, and externalizing environmental problems.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 64–83 (20 total)
Unequal Education in Preschool
Gender at Play
Jessica Prioletta
’ access to the different spaces of the classroom play environment. The data shows that liberal notions of equality worked to perpetuate Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s and Plato’s historical philosophies of education and gender. Drawing on Jane Roland Martin
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 79–94 (16 total)
Making It Up
Intergenerational Activism and the Ethics of Empowering Girls
Emily Bent
Parent, among others, 7 show, spectacular girls appear to change the world all on their own. Girl-activists and girl-centered organizations struggle in this environment to make intergenerational partnerships visible. Indeed, it is often easier to embrace
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 105–121 (17 total)
Sexy Health Carnival
One Small Part of Indigenous Herstory
Alexa Lesperance
supportive environments in which to learn, teach one another, and laugh, I created, with the help of my family, community, and NYSHN, the Sexy Health Carnival (SHC). The carnival is referred to as sexy because it is about positive esteem and feeling good
I’m Not Loud, I’m Outspoken
Narratives of Four Jamaican Girls’ Identity and Academic Success
Rowena Linton and Lorna McLean
. Methodology Our central research question asks: What are the strategies used by successful secondary school black girls to achieve academic success in an urban school learning environment? This study explores the strategies used by four successful high
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 71–88 (18 total)
“I Hope Nobody Feels Harassed”
Teacher Complicity in Gender Inequality in a Middle School
Susan McCullough
, to play this role the boys needed to be disruptive in class and dismissive of academic success. In researching boys’ dominance in the classroom environment in Australia, Dalley-Trim found that “while gender is a complex phenomenon, and the
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 55–70 (16 total)
Eva Insulander, Fredrik Lindstrand, and Staffan Selander
Over the last three decades, notions like “the flipped classroom,” 1 “TPACK,” 2 “digital learning objects,” 3 and “virtual learning environments,” 4 together with the evolution of multimodal communication 5 and new standards for the assessment
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–14 (14 total)
Their Journey to Triumphant Activism
14 Young Women Speak Out
Nokukhanya Ngcobo
themselves engaging in sexual activities with their partners, not because they were ready to do so but because they wanted to please their partners and also to fit in with their friends. As Zethu Jiyana writes, “I was now in an environment where relationships
From Risk to Resistance
Girls and Technologies of Nonviolence
Laurel Hart
grassroots technologies serve at-risk populations? How do existing policy frameworks seek to create nonviolent environments for online technologies, and in what ways do they fall short? What public infrastructures—like law enforcement, for example— are