Providing accessible tools for carrying out gender-sensitive analyses of current situations, this book includes frameworks for analysing systems, institutions and policies allowing the reader to think through the problems clearly and to develop constructive alternatives. This book is a companion volume to the Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks - a guide to using gender-analysis frameworks in development work. This companion will apply four frameworks: the Harvard framework, the women's empowerment approach, the gender analysis matrix and the social relations approach to the analysis of a variety of educational contexts, including national education policies and projects, schools, colleges, ministries, teaching and learning materials and school and teacher training curricula.

Aimed at policy makers and planners, academics, researchers and students, development agency and practitioners, each chapter presents a tool for gender analysis, and discusses its methodology and its uses, as a means of supporting gender mainstreaming. The book provides practical examples of how the tool can be used and highlights their strengths and disadvantages.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements 
List of acronyms 

1. Introduction
Why we need gender analysis in education 
Gender debates 
Gender mainstreaming 
The role of gender analysis in achieving gender equality in education

2. Key concepts in gender and education
Gender concepts 
Education concepts

3. Choosing your gender analysis tools
Can these tools be used with men and boys?

4. The Harvard Framework
Case study 1: a Nigerian teacher training college 
Case study 2: BRAC in Bangladesh

5. Women's Empowerment Framework
Case study 1: the Tanzania Primary Education Project 
Case study 2: the Reflect programme in Malawi

6. The Gender Analysis Matrix
Case study 1: a women's silk-reeling project in India
Case study 2: the Reflect programme in Malawi

7. The Social Relations Approach
Case study: HIV / AIDS education in Uganda

8. Curriculum-materials analysis
Case study 1: a primary textbook from Malawi
Case study 2: a primary reader for India
Proposals for improvement

9. Participatory tools for analysis and action
Limitations of the participatory approach
Participatory tools
Case study: pupil's workshop materials on abuse in African schools

Notes
Bibliography
Index