Gender Justice, Education and Equality : Creating Capabilities for Girls' and Women's Development / by Firdevs Melis Cin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cin, Firdevs Melis., Author.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, 2524-6453

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Teachers--Training of.

Teachers.

Educational sociology.

Human rights.

Gender Studies.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Sociology of Education.

Human Rights.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Sociology of Education.

Human Rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This book reframes gender and education issues from a feminist and capabilities perspective through a multi-generational study of women as teachers. It explores how different understandings of gender, equality and education generate a variety of approaches with which to pursue gender equality in education. Through employing the capabilities approach in a critical and innovative way to question justice, agency and well-being and also to evaluate valued functionings and capabilities, freedoms and lack of opportunities in women’s lives in Turkey it highlights the need for constructing a gender-just society. The book takes a closer look at these women’s memories, in order to understand how gender roles were created, negotiated and contested, and how the transition to modern ways of socialising and existing was shaped and women’s emancipation was guided by women teachers as social actors, rather than as passive onlookers or oppressed individuals. It provides important insights and critical evidence to be used in the planning and implementation of education and social/gender policies.

Contents:

PART I

Chapter 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Gender Justice

Chapter 2. Understanding(s) of Education, Gender Justice and Human Development

PART II

Chapter 3. Understanding Context: Political History, Gender Politics and Education Provision in Turkey

Chapter 4. The Women and Their Micro-Contexts

Chapter 5. Exploring Gender Inequalities in Personal Spaces and Private Sphere

Chapter 6. Education and Changing Lives

Chapter 7. Working for Social and Gender Justice

PART III

Chapter 8. Conclusion: A Capabilities-based Human Development Approach to Gender Justice and Education in Turkey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319391045

3319391046