Okkolin Education, Gender and Development

A Capabilities Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-20358-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

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 careers to higher education. The book creatively applies the human development and capabilities approach to analyze and assess educational advancement and development.

Mari-Anne Okkolin offers a fresh voice to the field of education, gender and development. The book draws on rich, in-depth evidence from Tanzanian women who have reached higher education, placing them amongst the very small percentage of women in the Tanzanian and sub-Saharan contexts. The book explores the women’s school experiences, everyday life practices and familial arrangements, and the values, expectations and assumptions associated with education and the schooling of girls and women.

Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the book, it will be of great interest to multiple academic audiences: post-graduates, researchers and academics. It is of particular relevance for all those interested in education, sociology, development studies, gender/women’s studies, and qualitative research methodology. The book will appeal especially to scholars working with the capabilities approach. It will also be of value beyond academia, for education practitioners in planning and implementing education and equality policies internationally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okkolin, Mari-Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I

1. Introduction: Educational Well-Being and Agency from the Gender Perspective

2. The Women and Their Micro-Contexts

3. Tanzania as a Macro-Case and Country-Context to Construct Educational Career

4. School, and Social and Familial Environments: Contexts and Pre-Conditions for Educational Advancement

5. Understanding(s) of Educational Well-Being and Agency

Part II

6. Enabling School-Environment?

7. Enabling Social and Familial Environments?

8. Who Decides?: Agency Aspirations and Freedoms

Part III

9. Comprehending Complexities and Educational Well-Being and Agency

Über Autor(innen)

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