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Education, Gender and Development: A Capabilities Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Education, Gender and Development A Capabilities Perspective

By Mari-Anne Okkolin Copyright 2017
272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This compelling book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls’ and women’s education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement and to identify the factors that support the construction of educational well-being and agency from gender perspective, the book narrates the stories of women who have successfully built their educational... Read more

Part I: Setting the Scene

1. Introduction

2. Why and How to Address Education, Gender and Development

3. Introducing the Ten Highly Educated Women

4. Introducing the Empirical Study

Part II: Education, Gender and Development

5. Research on Education, Gender and Development

6. Gendered Educational Challenges and Achievements in the Tanzanian Context

7. Capabilities Lenses to Address and Assess Gender, Education and Development

Part III: Women’s Many Stories

8. Educational Well-being In-Schools

9. Enabling Social and Familial Environment?

10. Agency Narratives and Notions

Part IV

11. Concluding Remarks and Reflections

Biography

Mari-Anne Okkolin is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development,  University of the Free State, South Africa, and Researcher at the Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

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