Gender in primary and secondary education : a handbook for policy-makers and other stakeholders / Ramya Subrahmanian.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Subrahmanian, Ramya.

Series:

• New gender mainstreaming series on development issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Educational equalization.
• Sex differences in education.
• Girls--Education.
• Girls.

Place of Publication:

London : Commonwealth Secretariat, [2007]

Summary:

• Gender in Primary and Secondary Education has been written in the context of rapidly expanding education systems worldwide, and particularly the rising enrolment of girls in schools. The author argues that now the challenge of gender mainstreaming goes beyond building schools and ensuring access, to sustaining these gains to secure the future of education for girls. Thus gender mainstreaming in education needs to address the more strategic questions of the relationship between education and wider development and change, and of the relationships between men and women in a rapidly changing world.
• The handbook is divided into six chapters, examining key policy and ideological gender mainstreaming issues within education systems and identifying the scope for greater gender mainstreaming.
• Essential reading for civil servants involved in education sector management, policy planners, education policy analysts and professionals, civil society organisers, and academics.

Contents:

• 1 Gender, Education and Development 1
• Achievements and Gaps 2
• Why Paying Attention to Gender and Education is Important 8
• 2 Reframing the Education Policy Discourse: Rights, Capabilities and Empowerment 21
• Gender Equality in Education: Framing a Substantive Approach 22
• Widening the Scope of Gender and Education Interventions: Towards a Rights-based Approach 26
• 3 The Gendered Construction of the Demand for Girls' Education 37
• Gender Inequalities and Education 39
• Structural Determinants of Female Disadvantage in Education 43
• Reproduction of Labour and its Relationship with Schooling 53
• 4 Supply-side Constraints on Girls' Schooling 59
• Reproducing Society through the Education System 60
• The Schooling Experience: Gender-based Violence 61
• Teachers as Shapers of Gender Equality 63
• The 'Hidden Curriculum' 65
• Boys and Girls in the Classroom: Gender Inequalities and Learning Outcomes 66
• Policy Issues 76
• 5 Policies and Programmes for Promoting Gender-equitable Schooling 95
• Lessons from Experience 98
• 6 Institutional Transformation and Gender Mainstreaming in Education 121
• Why Gender Mainstreaming? 122
• Defining Gender Mainstreaming 124
• Strategies for Mainstreaming Gender Equality 127
• Mainstreaming Gender in the New International Aid Architecture 136.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780850928648
• 0850928648

OCLC:

184829506