Women, Literacy and Development

Herausgeber: Robinson-Pant, Anna

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Women's literacy is often assumed to be the key to promoting better health, family planning and nutrition in the developing world. This has dominated much development research and has led to women's literacy being promoted by governments and aid agencies as the key to improving the lives of poor families. High dropout rates from literacy programmes suggest that the assumed link between women's literacy and development can be disputed. This book explores why women themselves want to learn to read and write and why, all too often, they decide that literacy classes are not for them. Bringing together the experiences of researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in more than a dozen countries, this edited volume presents alternative viewpoints on gender, development and literacy through detailed first-hand accounts. Rather than seeing literacy as a set of technical skills to be handed over in classrooms, these writers give new meaning to key terms such as 'barriers', 'culture', 'empowerment' and 'motivation'. Divided into three sections, this text examines new research approaches, a gendered perspective on literacy policy and programming, and implementation of literacy projects in African, Asian and South American contexts. With new insights and groundbreaking research, this collection will interest academics and professionals working in the fields of development, education and gender studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781138866577
• ISBN-10: 1138866571
• Artikelnr.: 42486096

Autorenporträt

Anna Robinson-Pant is a Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Research in Education at the University of East Anglia. As a development planner, teacher trainer and researcher with various international aid agencies, she has spent much of her working life in South Asia. Her publications include Why Eat Green Cucumber at the Time of Dying? (2001), an ethnographic study of women's literacy programmes in Nepal which won the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Questioning Women's Literacy: New Research Approaches 1. The
Illiterate Woman: Changing Approaches to Researching Women's Literacy 2.
Distorted Mirrors: (de)centring of the 'illiterate Indian Village Woman'
Through Ethnographic Research Narratives 3. Implications of the New
Literacy Studies for Researching Women's Literacy Programmes 4. Creating
the Gender Text: Literacy and Discourse in Rural El Salvador 5. Qualitative
Methods in Researching Women's Literacy: A Case Study 6. A Self-Reflexive
Analysis of Power and Positionality: Toward a Feminist Praxis Part 2:
Identifying the Issues: A Gendered Perspective on Literary Policy and
Programming 7. Functional Literacy, Gender and Identities: Policy and
Practice 8. Women are Lions in Dresses: Negotiating Gender Relations in
REFLECT Learning Circles in Lesotho 9. Closing the gap: Issues in Gender
Integrated Training of Adult Literacy Facilitators: Possibilities, Progress
and Resistance 10. Women, Literacy, Development and Gender: A Telling Case
Involving a HIV Positive Woman Part 3: Learning from Experience 11. I Will
Stay Here Until I Die: A Critical Analysis of the Muthande Literacy
Programme 12. We Were Nowhere We Were Not (present) on Any Maps Literacy
Brought us to the Forefront: Literacy and Empowering Processes for Dalit
Community Women in a Mumbai Slum 13. Functional Participation? Questioning
Participatory Attempts at Reshaping