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Summary
Summary
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 into three sections that:
reconceptualise the definitions of gender equality used by various social scientific disciplines, international organisations and policy makers;
illustrate the methodologies used to collect the voices of young men and women and their teachers telling stories of their success in lifting the burdens of poverty and negotiating traditional gender relations;
trace the impact of global gender agendas on national education policies, such as citizenship education, poverty reduction strategies, and feminist activism around adult women's learning.
Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context is an invaluable introduction to the range of conceptual frameworks and innovative research methods that address issues of gender education and development.
Author Notes
Shailaja Fennell is a Lecturer in Development Studies and Madeleine Arnot is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Table of Contents
| 1 (Re)visiting education and development agendas: contemporary gender researchShailaja Fennell and Madeleine Arnot |
| Part 1 (Re)Conceptualising Gender Equality |
| 2 Global values and gender equality: needs, rights and capabilitiesElaine Unterhalter |
| 3 Contested gender frameworks: economic models and provider perspectives on educationShailaja Fennell |
| 4 Global gender goals and the construction of equality: conceptual dilemmas and policy practiceChristopher Colclough |
| 5 Social capital, civil society and education for all: a gendered lensMalini Sivasubramaniam |
| Part 2 Researching Agency, Engagements and Empowerment |
| 6 Researching Transitions: gender education, marketisation and Islam in TajikistanAnise Waljee |
| 7 Researching Gender: explorations into sexuality and HIV/AIDS education in AfricaFatuma N. Chege |
| 8 Schooling girls: an intergenerational study of women's burdens in rural BangladeshJanet Raynor |
| 9 Acts of citizenship: women's civic engagements as community based educators in MumbaiAnju 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 educationHarriet Marshall and Madeleine Arnot |
| 12 Nationhood and the education of the female citizen in IndiaNitya Mohan and Rosie Vaughan |
| 13 Poverty reduction and gender parity in education: an alternative approachEmefa Takyi-Amoako |
| 14 Adult learning and the politics of change: feminist organizations and educational action in Latin AmericaNelly P. Stromquist |
