Gender, Equality and Education from International and Comparative Perspectives.

This volume of International Perspectives on Education and Society investigates the often controversial relationship between gender, equality and education from international and comparative perspectives. Much has been written recently about the global progress made toward gender parity in enrolment...

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Main Author: Baker, David
Other Authors: Wiseman, Alexander
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bradford : Emerald Group Pub., 2009.
Series:International Perspectives on Education and Society, 10.
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505 0 |a Front cover; Gender, Equality and Education from International and Comparative Perspectives; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Sex versus SES: A declining significance of gender for schooling in sub-Saharan Africa?; Chapter 2. The pedagogy of difference: Understanding Teachers' Beliefs and Practice of Gender Equity in Benin; Chapter 3. Learning from experience: Improving equality of access and outcomes for girls in Uganda's universal post-primary education and training initiative. 
505 8 |a Chapter 4. Sugar daddies and the danger of sugar: Cross-generational relationships, HIV/AIDS, and secondary schooling in ZambiaChapter 5. Limits of and possibilities for equality: An analysis of discourse and practices of gendered relations, ethnic traditions, and poverty among non-majority ethnic girls in Vietnam; Chapter 6. What matters for Chinese girls' behavior and performance in school: An investigation of co-educational and single-sex schooling for girls in urban China; Chapter. 
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