Fibian Lukalo

Mothers and Schooling (eBook, ePUB)

Poverty, Gender and Educational Decision-Making in Rural Kenya

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000481136
• Artikelnr.: 62737321

Autorenporträt

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