The structure and agency of women's education / edited by Mary Ann Maslak

Contributor(s):

Maslak, Mary Ann, editor

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2008]Description: xxviii, 277 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780791472750

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

371.822

Contents:

Part I. Structure and agency of educational policy for adolescent girls and adult women

The intersection of public policies and gender : understanding state action in education / Nelly P. Stromquist

Assessing the status and prospects of women's empowerment through education : a case study of women students at the University of The Gambia / Caroline Manion

Structure and agency in India's teacher education policy : women teachers' progress through a critical feminist lens / Sandra L. Stacki

Feast or famine for female education in Kenya? A structural approach to gender equity / Lucy Mule

Part II. Structure and agency of international forces of female education

Promoting girls' education in Africa : evidence from the field between 1996 and 2003 / David W. Chapman, Shirley J. Miske

The dance of agency and structure in an empowerment educational program in Mali and the Sudan / Karen Monkman, Rebecca Miles, Peter B. Easton

Res publica revisited : gendered agency through education in NGOs / Cathryn Magno

Their one best hope : educating daughters in China / Vilma Seeberg

Part III. Social relations as structural parameters defining females' agency in education

Female classroom assistants : agents of change in refugee classrooms in West Africa? / Jacki Kirk, Rebecca Winthrop

A world culture of equality? The institutional structure of schools and cross-national gender differences in academic achievement / Alexander W. Wiseman

Looking beyond the household : the importance of community-level factors in understanding underrepresentation of girls in Indian education / Amita Chudgar

Part IV. The intersection of structure and agency in methodologies

Life's structures and the individual's agency : making sense of women's words / Flavia Ramos

Policy as practice, agency as voice, research as intervention : imag(in)ing girls' education in China / Heidi Ross

Appendix. Abbreviated overview of selected policy recommendations on education and training of adolescent girls and adult women

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section	Circulation	C 371.822 St927 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	120339d

Includes bibliographical references and index.