Education and Gender

by Dhar, Debotri; Brock, Colin

• ISBN13: 9781472509086
• ISBN10: 1472509080
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-01-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Education and Gender draws on international research from the USA, the UK, India, Mexico, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to provide a comprehensive global overview of the relationship between gender and education. Rooting constructions of gender and sexuality in specific geographical contexts, the contributors consider a range of issues. Themes discussed include the gender gap in educational attainment; pedagogical strategies; stereotyping in curricula; and education policy. Drawing on best practices worldwide, the contributors identify the current gaps and propose solutions to promote gender-just, equitable and pluralistic societies. Each chapter includes key questions to encourage active engagement with the subject and a list of further reading to support taking the exploration further.

Author Biography

Debotri Dhar is Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, USA.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface, Colin Brock (University of Oxford, UK)
Introduction, Debotri Dhar (Rutgers University, USA)
1. Lessons Learned: Promoting Girls' Education in Rural Kenya, Dorothy Hodgson (Rutgers University, USA) and Katie Orlemanski (Rutgers University, USA)
2. The Gender Agenda in the United Kingdom, 1992-2012, Mike Younger (University of Cambridge, UK) and Molly Warrington (University of Cambridge, UK)
3. Missing Boys? Invisible Girls?, Mike Younger (University of Cambridge, UK) and Patricia George (Ministry of Education, West Indies)
4. Teaching for the Future: Feminist Pedagogy and Humanitarian Education in the University, Debotri Dhar (Rutgers University, USA)
5. Unlearning Gender and Sexuality: The Pedagogical Work of Two Organizations in Mexico City, Anahi Russo Garrido (Carleton College, USA)
6. Gender and Graduate Education in the United States, Yana Rodgers (Rutgers University, USA) and Ann Mari May (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
7. Nineteenth Century Social Reform and the Contemporary Indian Education System, Rumina Sethi (Panjab University, India)
Index