Practising Gender Equality in Education
Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter
Drawing on the work of the Beyond Access, Gender, Education, and Development project, contributors discuss some of the key challenges in achieving gender equality in education, give examples of initiatives in a range of contexts, and make recommendations for action. They suggest that there is a more substantive goal to aim for than gender parity (i.e. the same proportion of girls and boys entering and completing schooling): we need to work towards an equitable education system which allows all individuals, irrespective of gender, to develop their potential. Includes chapters adapted from papers by Pauline Rose, Taylor Brown, Debbie Budlender, Sam Gibson, Nicola Swainson, and Janet Raynor
Published: 2007
Pages: 136
eBook: 9780855988340
Paperback: 9780855985981
| Acknowledgements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | |||
| 1. Beyond access for girls and boys: how to achieve good quality, gender-equitable education | |||
| 2. Gender equality in schools | |||
| 3. Gender equality and adult basic education | |||
| 4. Beyond the mainstream: education for nomadic and pastoralist girls and boys | |||
| 5. Making it happen: political will for gender equality in education | |||
| 6. Developing capacity to achieve gender equality in education | |||
| 7. Gender-responsive budgeting in education | |||
| 8. Girls' education in Africa | |||
| 9. Girls' education in South Asia | |||
| Conclusion | |||
| Index |
Sheila Aikman Sheila Aikman has worked with a wide range of NGOs from community-based and regional federations of indigenous peoples in South America to international NGOs such as the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, Copenhagen, and Oxfam GB where she held the post of Global Education Policy Adviser prior to joining UEA and DEV in March 2008.
Elaine Unterhalter Elaine Unterhalter is a reader in Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London. Together with Sheila Aikman she co-ordinates the ‘Beyond Access: Gender, Education and Development’ project. Her books include Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice (Routledge, 2006), Beyond Access (with Sheila Aikman, Oxfam, 2005) and Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education (with Melanie Walker, Palgrave, 2007).
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