Gender, Education and Development: Beyond Access to Empowerment - Couverture souple

 
9781856496322: Gender, Education and Development: Beyond Access to Empowerment

Synopsis

This book grounds the education of women and girls in the realities of their lives and experience in diverse areas of the developing world. Moving beyond the previous emphasis on access to education to problematise its content and the way it is experienced, the case studies range from the Arakambut of Peru to the changing experience of racialised education in South Africa.

The contributors take issue with the World Bank’s view that the education of girls and women is important primarily as a cost-effective mechanism for making women more economically productive. Including an overview chapter on the impact of structural adjustment on education throughout Latin America and Africa, the book provides detailed information on Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Niger and Mauritius. It meets the urgent need to understand the education of women and girls in their economic, political and cultural contexts.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christine Heward is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick.

Sheila Bunwaree is lecturer in the Faculty of Social Studies and Humanities, University of Mauritius.

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9781856496315: Gender, Education and Development: Beyond Access to Empowerment

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1856496317 ISBN 13 :  9781856496315
Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 1999
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