Gendered voices : reflections on gender and education in South Africa and Sudan / edited by H.B. Holmarsdottir [and others]

Internationally, there is growing awareness that the target of Education for All by 2015 will not be met unless more strident efforts are made to improve access for marginalized, hard-to-reach children (most often girls). For almost four decades gender equality in education has been one of the key g...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Holmarsdottir, Halla B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, ©2013.
Series:Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers) ; v. 23.
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Table of Contents:
  • Revisiting the Discourses on Gender Equality, Equity and Education / Halla B. Holmarsdottir, Vuyokazi Nomlomo, Alawia I. Farag, Zubeida Desai
  • Reflections on Discourses, Struggles and Methodology in Gender and Education
  • Moving Beyond the Numbers / Halla B. Holmarsdottir
  • Reflections on the Struggle for Girls' Education in Sudan / Amna Mohamed Bedri
  • Interviewing Women / Marit Petersen
  • Gender and Education in Sudan
  • A Critical Review of Gender Equality in Education / Shadia Abdelrahim Mohamed Daoud
  • Does Education Work? Perspectives on Semi-Nomadic Girls' Education in Some Selected Areas of Sudan / Alawia Ibrahim Farag
  • Women in South Sudan / Anders Breidlid, Halldis Breidlid
  • Gender and Education in South Africa
  • "To be a girl" / Vuyokazi Nomlomo
  • In The Midst of Gender Norms / Heidi Lindberg Augestad
  • Education a Tool of Empowerment? / Ingrid Birgitte Møller Ekne
  • Commonalities and Contradictions
  • Writing Across Cultures / Ann Torday Gulden.