Gendered voices : reflections on gender and education in South Africa and Sudan /

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Imprint:	Rotterdam : SensePublishers, c2013.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Comparative and international education ; v.23 Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers) ; v.23.
Subject:	Gender identity in education -- South Africa. Gender identity in education -- Sudan. Gender identity in education. South Africa. Sudan. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9850008

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Other authors / contributors:	Holmarsdottir, Halla B.
ISBN:	9789462091375 (electronic bk.) 9462091374 (electronic bk.) 9789462091351 9789462091368
Summary:	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 global concerns and as a result various organizations at national and international levels along with governments have initiated programs focusing on achieving gender equality, women's empowerment and improving girls' access to education. By focusing on access alone (i.e. gender parity) we may not un

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.

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