Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges and Opportunities
Redaktion: Stacki, Sandra L.; Baily, Supriya

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world. Discrimination, violence, marginalization, and health-related issues prevail, making proper education at the middle school level crucial during this unique development time. This volume takes a global look at the obstacles and enablers in girls' education that can have lasting institutional, psychological and social consequences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317671831
• Artikelnr.: 42644101

Autorenporträt

Sandra L. Stacki is Associate Professor, Hofstra University, NY, USA. Research on empowering women teachers in India won the Comparative and International Education Society's Gail Kelly award. Publications include "Moving Gender Boundaries: Rays of Hope for Female Teachers in India," and co-editing "The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment." Supriya Baily is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University teaching international and comparative education and research methods. Her research interests focus on gender, education and empowerment as well as higher education in India. She is the co-editor of two books and has presented at numerous national and international conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Watering the Seeds: The Challenges and Opportunities for
Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe Sandra L. Stacki and Supriya
Baily Part I: Structural Domain 1. Transitions: Girls, Schooling, and
Reproductive Realities in Malawi Nancy Kendall and Zikani Kaunda 2. Girls,
Education, and Narratives of Progress: Deconstructing the Discourse on
Child Marriage Shenila Khoja-Moolji 3. More than Access: Overcoming
Barriers to Girls' Secondary Education in the Peruvian Andes Joe Levitan
Part II: Institutional Domain 4. Adolescent Girls' Education, Empowerment,
and Marginalization in Gujarat, India: Inclusion, Exclusion, or
Assimilation? Payal Shah 5. Doorways: Preventing and Responding to
School-Related, Gender-Based Violence in West Africa Emily Forsyth Queen,
Lorena Gonzalez, and Shannon Meehan 6. Empowering Girls through Leadership
Development: CARE's Model in Action Amanda Moll, Emily Janoch, and Ginny
Kintz Part III: Psychological and Social Domains 7. Reflections on
Identity, Difference, and Rights in an Islamic High School in Cameroon
Caroline M. Berinyuy and Carol Anne Spreen 8. Empowering Indonesian Street
Girls: Processes and Possibilities Julia Suleeman and I. G. A. A. Jackie
Viemilawati 9. Education as Domination: Girls' Experiences in Desegregated
White South African Schools Maria Hengeveld and Mark Daku Part IV: Communal
and Cultural Domains 10. Wearing Hijab: Muslim Girls' Schooling Experiences
in the United States Wafa Hozien 11. Empowerment of Excluded Girls in
Schooling: Exploring Capabilities and Social Justice Change in China Vilma
Seeberg 12. Voices on Educational Experience and Challenges: Young
Adolescent Girls in Ghana Alex Kumi-Yeboah Conclusion: From Watering to
Nurturing: Preparing Richer Ground for Young Adolescent Girls Supriya Baily
and Sandra L. Stacki