This ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped by, and reshape, rural communities. It provides a humane portrait of the struggles faced by mothers in rural Kenya to educate their children, despite the 'free education policy'.
This ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped by, and reshape, rural communities. It provides a humane portrait of the struggles faced by mothers in rural Kenya to educate their children, despite the 'free education policy'.
Fibian Lukalo is Director for Research at the National Land Commission, Kenya. She taught at Moi University, and has held a number of fellowships including the Vera Campbell Scholars Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research in Sante-Fe, New Mexico; The African Guest Researchers Fellowship at the Nordic African Institute in Uppsala, Sweden; and the Gender Institute programme at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Senegal. She received her PhD in sociology of education and international development from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1 Mothers and school decision-making: An introduction An introduction Situating the study The structure of the book PART I Uncovering spaces for mothers' voices 2 Gendered households and mothering Contextualising schooling African feminist perspectives Reflections 3 Researching mothers' lives in situ Living in Wela The ethics of naming, hearing and valuing Research dynamics and validations Concluding comments PART II Mothers' school choices: educational histories, aspirations and constraints 4 Education in Wela - 'the hunched-back village' Children: education, domestic life and resources Family patterns of schooling Conclusion 5 Schooling in mothers' lives: childhood memories of support, silence and denial Gendered memories: the marginalising of girls' education Personal resilience: the pursuit of 'becoming educated' Self-blame: the guilt associated with insufficient schooling Reflections 6 Mothers at the heart of decision-making 'Possessing certificates': mothers as teachers 'We reached': choice dilemmas of mothers with some schooling Arduous school encounters: disability and infirmity Mothers' approaches to schooling 7 Schooling 'all' children? The challenges of social mothering Grandmothers in charge of schooling Social mothering: contingency schooling plans Paternity: mothers keeping their own children close Fostering children: paternities and reciprocal arrangements Thoughts on social mothering PART III Mothers' agency: Decisions, discourses and school engagement strategies 8 A typology of mothers' educational decision-making: from aspirations to school engagements Schooling, poverty and social advancement: fractured possibilities Mothers' aspirations and school engagements Facilitating environments and mother - school strategies Schooling gains in mothers' worlds 9 Epilogue: mothers' educational agency Who are you? Schooling for all? Looking to the future Glossary Index
List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1 Mothers and school decision-making: An introduction An introduction Situating the study The structure of the book PART I Uncovering spaces for mothers' voices 2 Gendered households and mothering Contextualising schooling African feminist perspectives Reflections 3 Researching mothers' lives in situ Living in Wela The ethics of naming, hearing and valuing Research dynamics and validations Concluding comments PART II Mothers' school choices: educational histories, aspirations and constraints 4 Education in Wela - 'the hunched-back village' Children: education, domestic life and resources Family patterns of schooling Conclusion 5 Schooling in mothers' lives: childhood memories of support, silence and denial Gendered memories: the marginalising of girls' education Personal resilience: the pursuit of 'becoming educated' Self-blame: the guilt associated with insufficient schooling Reflections 6 Mothers at the heart of decision-making 'Possessing certificates': mothers as teachers 'We reached': choice dilemmas of mothers with some schooling Arduous school encounters: disability and infirmity Mothers' approaches to schooling 7 Schooling 'all' children? The challenges of social mothering Grandmothers in charge of schooling Social mothering: contingency schooling plans Paternity: mothers keeping their own children close Fostering children: paternities and reciprocal arrangements Thoughts on social mothering PART III Mothers' agency: Decisions, discourses and school engagement strategies 8 A typology of mothers' educational decision-making: from aspirations to school engagements Schooling, poverty and social advancement: fractured possibilities Mothers' aspirations and school engagements Facilitating environments and mother - school strategies Schooling gains in mothers' worlds 9 Epilogue: mothers' educational agency Who are you? Schooling for all? Looking to the future Glossary Index
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