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Context and the Gendered Status of Teachers: Women's Empowerment through Leadership of Non-Formal Schooling in Rural Bangladesh
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Sperandio, Jill – Gender and Education, 2011
Empowering women to control and change their lives continues to be an important goal for many nations. This article examines the empowering effects of being selected and trained to lead rural schools in Bangladesh, using survey and interview data from 152 village women working with the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee education programme.…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Females, Holistic Approach, Foreign Countries
The Development of Conceptions of the Right to Literacy in Traditional Rural Africa
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Day, Kathryn Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined conceptions of the right to literacy in children, adolescents, and young adults living in rural Zulu villages in the mountains of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, as one instantiation of the development of conceptions of human rights in a developing world setting. Of human rights, literacy was chosen because of its familiarity to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Population, Childrens Rights
Democratising Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania: Opportunity Structures and Social Inequalities
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Morley, Louise; Leach, Fiona; Lugg, Rosemary – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This article is based on an ESRC/DFID funded research project on Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania: Developing an Equity Scorecard (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/wideningparticipation). There are questions about whether widening participation in higher education is a force for democratisation or differentiation.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Colleges, Statistical Data, Biographies
The Cultural Constructs of Race, Gender, and Class: A Study of How Afro Caribbean and Indo Caribbean Women Academics Negotiate Their Careers.
Gregory, Sheila T. – 2003
Women in the Caribbean share many different commonalities, but their experiences vary by culture and the socioeconomic development and infrastructure of the country in which they reside. The 44 women who participated in a study were all full-time faculty from the University of the West Indies, Mona, St. Augustine, and Cave Hill campuses located in…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, College Faculty, Cultural Context, Developing Nations