Gender in Primary and Secondary Education : A Handbook for Policy-Makers and Other Stakeholders

by Subrahmanian, Ramya

• ISBN13: 9780850928648
• ISBN10: 0850928648
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

Gender in Primary and Secondary Educationhas been written in the context of rapidly expanding education systems worldwide, and particularly the rising enrollment of girls in schools. The author argues that now the challenge of gender mainstreaming goes beyond building schools and ensuring access, to sustaining these gains to secure the future of education for girls. Thus gender mainstreaming in education needs to address the more strategic questions of the relationship between education and wider development and change, and of the relationships between men and women in a rapidly changing world. The handbook is divided into six chapters, examining key policy and ideological gender mainstreaming issues within education systems and identifying the scope for greater gender mainstreaming. As the latest title in the New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues, this book will be of interest to civil servants involved in education sector management, policy planners, education policy analysts and professionals, civil society organizers, and academics.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Executive Summary

Abbreviations

Gender, Education and Development

Reframing the Education Policy Discourse: Rights, Capabilities and Empowerment

The gendered Construction of the Demand for Girls' Education

Supply Side Constraints to Female Schooling

Policies and Programmes for Promoting Gender-Equitable Schooling

Institutional Transformation and Gender Mainstreaming in Education

References

Index

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