Gender, Education and Development: Beyond Access to Empowerment

by Christine Heward, Sheila Bunwaree

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781856496322
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/05/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

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.
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.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Christine Heward and Sheila Bunwaree
Part 1: Changing Political Contexts
1. The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes on Gender and Household Educational Decision-Making: Evidence from Africa and Latin America - Nelly P. Stromquist
2. Listening to the Gendered Other: Participation of Girls and Women in Education and Training in Papua New Guinea - Christine Fox
3. The schooling of South African girls: Stories, statistics, and strategies - Elaine Unterhalter
4. Schooling and Development: Eroding Amazon Women‘s Knowledge and Diversity - Sheila Aikman
Part 2: Africa: Changing Family and Household Contexts
5. Girls and Schooling in Ethiopia - Pauline Rose and Mercy Tembon
6. Education, Schooling and Fertility in the Context of Niger - Shona Wynd
7. Moving Beyond Issues of Access and Equity in Promoting Education for Girls in Tanzania - Stella Bendera
Part 3: Middle Income Countries and the Labour Market
8. Gender Inequality: the Mauritian Experience - Sheila Bunwaree
9. Gender Inequality in Educational Attainment in Peninsular Malaysia - Suet-ling Pong
Part 4: South Asian Contrasts
10. Gender, Education and Development: Sri Lanka - Swarna Jayawaree
11. From WID to GAD: experiences of education in Nepal - Mo Sibbons
12. Closing the gender gap?: the informal sector in Pakistan - Christine Heward

Editorial Reviews

Grounds the education of women and girls in the realities of their lives and experiences in the developing world. After an overview of the impact of structural adjustment on education in Latin America and Africa, presents case studies from Third World countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Also critically analyzes the World Bank's view that women's education is the most cost-effective mechanism for making them more economically productive. Paper edition (unseen), $22.50. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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