1st Edition

Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives

Edited By Shailaja Fennell, Madeleine Arnot Copyright 2008
244 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015. But can such global agendas address national and local gender inequalities and will they empower women through education? This thought-provoking book offers an opportunity to engage critically with existing and emergent conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches to this global debate. It is divided... Read more

1. (Re)visiting education and development agendas: contemporary gender research Shailaja Fennell and Madeleine Arnot  Part 1: (Re)Conceptualising Gender Equality  2. Global values and gender equality: needs, rights and capabilities Elaine Unterhalter   3. Contested gender frameworks: economic models and provider perspectives on education Shailaja Fennell  4. Global gender goals and the construction of equality: conceptual dilemmas and policy practice Christopher Colclough  5. Social capital, civil society and education for all: a gendered lens Malini Sivasubramaniam  Part 2: Researching Agency, Engagements and Empowerment  6. Researching Transitions: gender education, marketisation and Islam in Tajikistan Anise Waljee  7. Researching Gender: explorations into sexuality and HIV/AIDS education in Africa Fatuma N. Chege  8. Schooling girls: an intergenerational study of women’s burdens in rural Bangladesh Janet Raynor  9. Acts of citizenship: women’s civic engagements as community based educators in Mumbai Anju Saigal  10. Gendered experiences of teaching in poor rural areas of Ghana Leslie Casely-Hayford  Part 3: (Re)Defining Global Equality Agendas  11. Globalising the school curriculum: gender, EFA and global citizenship education Harriet Marshall and Madeleine Arnot  12. Nationhood and the education of the female citizen in India Nitya Mohan and Rosie Vaughan  13. Poverty reduction and gender parity in education: an alternative approach Emefa Takyi-Amoako  14. Adult learning and the politics of change: feminist organizations and educational action in Latin America Nelly P. Stromquist

Biography

Shailaja Fennell is a Lecturer in Development Studies and Madeleine Arnot is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.