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Editors
Sheila Aikman works for Oxfam GB as an Educational Adviser to the international programme.
Elaine Unterhalter is Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development Institute of Education, London UK.
They are joint co-ordinators of Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, a project arising from a partnership between Oxfam, the Institute of Education, and the British government's Department for International Development (DFID).
Contents
Contents (PDF 192KB)
Introduction - Sheila Aikman and Elaine Unterhalter (PDF 252KB)
Part One: The challenges for Gender Equality in Education
Fragmented Frameworks? Researching women, gender, education and development - Elaine Unterhalter (PDF 412KB)
Ensuring a fair chance for girls - Global Campaign for Education (PDF 452KB)
Measuring gender equality in education - Elaine Unterhalter, Chloe Challender, and Rajee Rajagopalan (PDF 412KB)
Part Two: Transforming Action - Changing Policy through Practice
Educating girls in Bangladesh: watering a neighbour's tree? - Janet Raynor (PDF 568KB)
The challenge of educating girls in Kenya - Elimu Yetu Coalition (PDF 360KB)
Learning to improve policy for pastoralists in Kenya - Ian Leggett (PDF 352KB)
When access is not enough: educational exclusion of rural girls in Peru - Patricia Ames (PDF 356KB)
Crossing boundaries and stepping out of purdah in India - Mora Oommen (PDF 372KB)
Pastoralist schools in Mali: gendered roles and curriculum realities - Salina Sanou and Sheila Aikman (PDF 324KB)
Part Three: The Challenge of Local Practices - Doing Policy Differently?
Learning about HIV/AIDS in schools: does a gender-equality approach make a difference? - Mark Thorpe (PDF 232KB)
Gender, education, and Pentecostalism: the women's movement within the Assemblies of God in Burkina Faso - Alicia Zents (PDF 260KB)
Enabling education for girls: the Loreto Day School Sealdah, India - Ruth Doggett (PDF 536KB)
Conclusion: policy and practice change for gender equality - Sheila Aikman and Elaine Unterhalter (PDF 160KB)
Index (PDF 224KB)
PDF of whole book (PDF 1,728KB)
Related Links
Please note, inclusion of these links does not imply that Oxfam agrees with or endorses statements made or opinions expressed in external websites.
- CAMFED International, an expanding group of non-governmental agencies in Africa, the USA and the UK, is dedicated to extending girls' access to education in poor rural communities of Africa.
- Commonwealth Education Fund is a partnership of industry and UK government aiming to assist the global community in reaching the targets laid down in the 'Education for All' programme which was adopted at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2000.
- ELDIS is a gateway to information on development issues, providing free and easy access to high quality online resources on a wide range of topics, including education and gender and education.
- The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is a network of child rights organizations that work to improve the lives of children.
- Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) is a pan-African NGO which brings together senior women policy makers in the education sector who are committed to improving girls' education
- The Gender and Development Network is a diverse membership network of practitioners, academics and consultants working on gender and development issues in the UK. It is hosted by WOMANKIND Worldwide, the UK charity dedicated to working internationally to raise the status of women.
- Global Campaign for Education
The GCE brings together major NGOs and teachers' unions in over 150 countries around the world, promoting education as a basic human right, and mobilizing public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfil their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people.
- The Society for International Development is an international NGO which aims to promote social justice and foster democratic participation. Through locally driven international programmes and activities, SID strengthens collective empowerment and facilitates dialogue and knowledge sharing worldwide.
- Women in Development Europe (WIDE) is a European network of development NGOs, gender specialists, and human rights activists.
- The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) is the Education For All flagship for girls' education and principal movement to narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education by 2005.
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