Women and Higher Education in Africa : Reconceptualizing Gender-Based Human Capabilities and Upgrading Human Rights to Knowledge

by Lumumba, Ndri Assie

• ISBN13: 9780974972305
• ISBN10: 0974972304
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Atlasbooks Dist Serv
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Summary

Women and Higher Education in Africa: Reconceptualizing Gender-based Human Capabilities and Upgrading Human Rights to Knowledgeis a pioneering book that provides theoretical articulation of the quest for relevant development paradigms and policy conceptualization to address effectively the urgent need for Africa collectively to appropriate the process of genuine progress. Noted scholars and policy analysts address, in 16 chapters, complex issues that are central to the relevant analysis and understanding of the interface between gender, higher education, and the production of knowledge as a means for agency, reclaiming of human rights, and a source for informed participation in social processes. They have explored the issues surrounding the basic fundamental right of women to higher education and argued the importance of women's access to higher education if African societies and countries are to break the cycle of poverty and human misery. This is a hopeful book with authoritatively articulated and compelling arguments for the full utilization of human capabilities and the fulfillment of the African women's rights to learning in all areas and at all levels of educational systems including higher education.

Author Biography

N'Dri T. Assie-Lumumba earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is currently professor in the African Studies and Research Center at Cornell University where she is a member of several graduate fields. She has served as director of the Cornell Program on Gender and Global Change. She is Chercheur Associ' CRAU at the Universit' de Cocody (Abidjan, C'te d'Ivoire) and research affiliate of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance of the University of Houston. She is co-founder of CEPARRED. Her extensive publications include her books Les Africaines dans la Politique: Femmes Baoul' de C'te d'Ivoire; Cyberspace, Distance Learning, and Higher Education in Developing Countries: Old and Emergent Issues of Access, Pedagogy, and Knowledge Production; Higher Education in Africa: Crises, Reforms, and Transformation and the co-edited book African Voices in Education. She is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction: General Issues and Specific Perspectives	p. 1
Human Capital, Human Capabilities, and Gender Equality: Harnessing the Development of Human Potential as a Human Right and the Foundation for Social Progress	p. 15
Mismeasuring Gender Disparities in the Educational Establishments	p. 39
Politics of Exclusion in Higher Education: The Inadequacy of Gender Issues in the Globalization Debates	p. 53
Women's Participation in Higher Levels of Learning in Africa	p. 75
The Significance of Higher Education in Gender and Education Reforms in Africa	p. 109
The Current Status of, and Legislation to Redress Gender Inequalities in South Africa	p. 127
Asymmetric Relations and Other Gender Issues in Ghanaian Higher Education	p. 147
Academic Women at the University of Zimbabwe: Institutional and Individual Issues in Reforming Higher Education in a Stressed Economy	p. 179
Philosophical and Institutional Challenges in Integrating Women in Science and Technology in Africa	p. 213
Ivorian Women: Education and Integration in the Economic Development of Cote d'Ivoire	p. 233
"In a Nutshell, Science and Technology Must Be for the Welfare of the People": African Women Scientists and the Production of Knowledge	p. 277
Women and Scientific Education: The Case of Higher Education in Cote d'Ivoire	p. 307
Linking Basic Education to Higher Education by Addressing Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Education: The Case of Eastern and Southern Africa	p. 353
Women's Employment and Well-Being in East and South-East Asia: Lessons for Africa?	p. 379
Can African Women Learn from East and South-East Asia? Response to Amiya Kumar Bagchi's Paper	p. 398
Response to the Comments of Professor Asma Barlas	p. 401
Higher Education in Africa and Latin America: Comparative Insights from Globalization and Gender Perspectives	p. 405
A Theoretical Perspective on Capitalism and Welfare States and their Responses to Inequality with a Focus on Gender: What Lessons for Africa?	p. 443
General Conclusion	p. 471
Contributors	p. 481
Conference Participants	p. 489
Presenters and Papers	p. 489
Chairs	p. 491
Discussants	p. 491
Co-sponsors	p. 491
Bibliography	p. 493
Index	p. 527
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