Education for women: whose values count?

Robinson-Pant, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3989-2272 (2004) Education for women: whose values count? Gender and Education, 16 (4). pp. 473-489. ISSN 0954-0253

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Abstract

This article looks at how far educational approaches to gender equity can be packaged and exported to developing countries. I analyze current discourses on women's education at international, national and local levels. Drawing on detailed ethnographic data from Nepal, I argue that issues around gender and education need to be addressed as ideological in nature, rather than a technical matter of tackling ‘drop out’ from women's literacy classes or getting more girls into school. From talking about ‘change’, ‘transformation’ and ‘access’, we need to think more about what is being changed to what and whose values underlie specific educational approaches.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group
Depositing User:	Vishal Gautam
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2004
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2023 10:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/16580
DOI:	10.1080/09540250042000300385

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