1st Edition
Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives
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.
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.
