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Without ruffling feathers: Insights on non-threatening femininity
(The Uganda Feminist Forum, 2019)
In this paper, I highlight the salience of agency as embodied in performing
non-threatening femininity. I argue that the potency within this form of
resistance is in its slipperiness and/or elusiveness to power. While ...
Exploring gender equality in the health workforce: A study in Uganda and Somalia
(Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET), 2019)
A Gender Study commissioned by THET in 2017 found that gender inequity is widely recognised as an obstacle for women working in the health sector in LMICs. The study identified three key issues:
Discrimination against ...
The construction of gender in Ugandan English textbooks: a focus on gendered discourses
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
Informed by a feminist post-structural framework, this study departs
from the overriding emphasis on explicit constructions of women
in textbooks. It focuses on culturally implicit knowledge and/or
gendered discourses ...
‘Madam, are you one of them?’ ‘Reflexivities of discomfort’ in researching an ‘illicit’ subject
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
Informed largely by Affect theory (2004), this paper takes up ‘reflexivities of
discomfort’ to reflexively engage with my affective struggles as a Christian,
heterosexual, mother, educator, undertaking a study on ...
Networked texts: discourse, power and gender neutrality in Ugandan physics textbooks
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-11-15)
Research within science textbooks has dominantly focused on examining explicit representations of women and men using quantitative methodology. The assumption that gendered arrangements are necessarily explicit and therefore ...
Beyond a focus on textbooks: Negotiating English language and physics gendered textbook constructions in Ugandan secondary school classrooms
(ProQuest LLC, 2017-05-17)
This study exceeded the dominant focus on textbooks to include teacher and
student classroom engagements with them. It was guided by three research questions: i)
In what ways might English and physics textbooks in Ugandan ...
Gender Representation in Learning Materials: International Perspectives
(Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2018)
Gender Representation in Learning Materials: International Perspectives
provides remarkable insight into research on gender and textbooks from
an international perspective, illuminating diverse contexts, methodology,
raising ...
‘Gendering’ the text through implicit citations of gendered discourses: the construction of gender and teacher talk around children’s fiction
(Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2019-04-08)
This study departs from the overriding focus on textbooks, which disregards how readers take them up. Informed by feminist post-structural theory, I analyse the construction of gender in children's fiction texts used in a ...
The representation of gender in English textbooks in Uganda
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-06-29)
The central role played by textbooks in children’s education in developing
countries has been highlighted previously in this journal. This paper
reports on how an English-language textbook used commonly in Ugandan
secondary ...
Government policy on science education in Uganda: A glass-ceiling for women’s access to higher education
(2013)
The paper assesses the Ugandan policy on science education and its implications for girls‟
access to higher education. The rationale behind this policy was to build capacity in the field
of science in Uganda. Consequently, ...