
Practising Gender Equality in Education
Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter
Published: 2007
Pages: 136
eBook: 9780855988340
Paperback: 9780855985981
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).