Girls Education In The Twenty First Century

Author : Mercy Tembon,Lucia Fort
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821374757

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Girls' Education in the Twenty-first Century by Mercy Tembon,Lucia Fort Pdf

Persuasive evidence demonstrates that gender equality in education is central to economic development. Despite more than two decades of accumulated knowledge and evidence of what works in improving gender equality, progress on the ground remains slow and uneven across countries. What is missing? Given that education is a critical path to accelerate progress toward gender equality and the empowerment of women, what is holding us back? These questions were discussed at the global symposium Education: A Critical Path to Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, which was sponsored by the World Bank in October 2007. Girls' Education in the 21st Century is based on background papers developed for the symposium. The book's chapters reflect the current state of knowledge on education from a gender perspective and highlight the importance of, and challenges to, female education, as well as the interdependence of education and development objectives. The last chapter presents five strategic directions for advancing gender equality in education and their implications for World Bank operations. Girls' Education in the 21st Century will be of particular interest to researchers, educators, school administrators, and policy makers at the global, national, regional, and municipal levels.

Author : Riley Witt &
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781839472329

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Women Education in 21st Century by Riley Witt & Pdf

In no society do women yet enjoy the same opportunities as men. They work longer hours and they are paid less, both in total and prorata. Their choices as to how they spend their time, in both work and leisure, are more constrained than they are for men. These disparities generate substantial gaps between how much women and men can contribute to society, and how much they respectively share in its benefits. In most countries, a fundamental aspect of these disparities in inequality in access to and performance in education. The education of girls and women has been recognized for several decades as a fundamental human right and a developmental necessity. Never the less, large gender disparities in enrolment and learning achievements persist. Eradicating these disparities is well within the power and spending capacity of the world's governments. This book covers all the issues related to women education, which makes it a comprehensive and an authentic work on the subject. It will be a highly beneficial reference tool for education administrators, government and non-governmental organizations, policy makers, teachers and students of women studies and all who work for women's welfare.

Author : Barbara Kerr, Ph.D.,Robyn McKay, Ph.D.
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781935067382

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Smart Girls in the 21st Century by Barbara Kerr, Ph.D.,Robyn McKay, Ph.D. Pdf

Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright girls' development, types of intelligence, differences in generations, eminent women, barriers to achievement, education & growing talent, adolescence & college, gifted minority girls & women, twice-exceptionalism, and career guidance.

Author : Curry Malott,Brad J. Porfilio
Publisher : IAP
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617353321

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Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century by Curry Malott,Brad J. Porfilio Pdf

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset of a much larger movement for critical transformation and a more humane, less Eurocentric, less paternalistic, less homophobic, less patriarchical, less exploitative, and less violent world. This volume highlights the finding that rigorous critical pedagogical approaches to education, while still marginalized in many contexts, are being used in increasingly more classrooms for the benefit of student learning, contributing, however indirectly, to the larger struggle against the barbarism of industrial, neoliberal, militarized destructiveness. The challenge for critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century, from this point of view, includes contributing to the manifestation of a truly global critical pedagogy that is epistemologically democratic and against human suffering and capitalist exploitation. These rigorous, democratic, critical standards for measuring the value of our scholarship, including this volume of essays, should be the same that we use to critique and transform the larger society in which we live and work.

Author : Donna Marie Johnson,Alice E. Ginsberg
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438455976

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Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls by Donna Marie Johnson,Alice E. Ginsberg Pdf

Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls’ studies. Presenting cutting-edge research from transnational scholars and activists, Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls introduces original methodologies and girl-centered program design to the field of girls’ studies. The editors pair progressive girls’ studies research on topics such as differential privilege, voice, cultural values, and access to material resources, with provocative questions in order to further the thinking about issues that are often marginalized or overlooked in feminist domains. In addition, the book serves as a manual for educators and activists, designed to promote critical discussions that are accessible and includes a final dialogue with contemporary scholars about their work and the current direction of the field.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers,Connie K. Chung
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612509242

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Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century by Fernando M. Reimers,Connie K. Chung Pdf

This book describes how different nations have defined the core competencies and skills that young people will need in order to thrive in the twenty-first-century, and how those nations have fashioned educational policies and curricula meant to promote those skills. The book examines six countries—Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States—exploring how each one defines, supports, and cultivates those competencies that students will need in order to succeed in the current century. Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century appears at a time of heightened attention to comparative studies of national education systems, and to international student assessments such as those that have come out of PISA (the Program for International Student Assessment), led by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This book’s crucial contribution to the burgeoning field of international education arises out of its special attention to first principles—and thus to first questions: As Reimers and Chung explain, “much can be gained by an explicit investigation of the intended purposes of education, in what they attempt to teach students, and in the related questions of why those purposes and how they are achieved.” These questions are crucial to education practice and reform at a time when educators (and the students they serve) face unique, pressing challenges. The book’s detailed attention to such questions signals its indispensable value for policy makers, scholars, and education leaders today.

Author : Steve Biddulph
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780007455676

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Raising Girls in the 21st Century: Helping Our Girls to Grow Up Wise, Strong and Free by Steve Biddulph Pdf

Steve Biddulph’s Raising Boys was a global phenomenon. The first book in a generation to look at boys’ specific needs, parents loved its clarity and warm insights into their sons’ inner world. But today, things have changed. It’s girls that are in trouble.

Author : International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Basic education
ISBN : UOM:39015043052813

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Education for the Twenty-first Century by International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century Pdf

Containing a selection of texts on education prepared during the work of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century, this volume bears witness to some paradoxes faced by education: to reconcile divergent aims and trends, to embody both continuity and renewal, to encourage conformity and innovation. These papers are intended to complement existing literature to respond to questions that arose in the course of the Commission's work, and to illuminate specific issues that cross disciplines.

Author : P. N. Lassa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Teachers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021995225

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Teacher Education in the Twenty-first Century by P. N. Lassa Pdf

Author : Inga Elgquist-Saltzman,Alison Mackinnon,Alison Prentice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135714024

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Education Into the 21st Century by Inga Elgquist-Saltzman,Alison Mackinnon,Alison Prentice Pdf

The combined effort of 19 feminist educators and theorists from four continents, this exciting collection of essays is designed to be as wide-ranging intellectually as it is geographically. Probing the abilities (and dis-abilities) of women in education from the mid-19th century to the present, it brings historical analysis, classroom research, and theoretical reflection to bear on gender issues in schooling and higher education. 'What about the boys?' cry alarmists who fear a feminist takeover in schools. 'What about them indeed?', say students of women's education who wonder if it is now time to engage more explicitly and directly with the politics of male advantage in education, as well as in economic, political, social and cultural life.

Author : Shari Dworkin,Monica Gandhi,Paige Passano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520272880

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Women's Empowerment and Global Health by Shari Dworkin,Monica Gandhi,Paige Passano Pdf

"What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? Despite the rise of a human rights-based approach to women's health and increasing awareness of the synergies between women's health and empowerment, a lack of consensus remains as to how to measure empowerment and successfully intervene in ways that improve health. Women's Empowerment and Global Health provides thirteen detailed, multidisciplinary case studies from across the globe and through the course of a woman's life to show how science and advocacy can be creatively merged to enhance the agency and status of women. Accompanying short videos provide background about programs on the ground in India, the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Women's Empowerment and Global Health explores the promises and limits of programmatic, scientific, and rights-based work in real-world settings and provides the next generation of researchers and practitioners, as well as students in global and public health, sociology, anthropology, women's studies, law, business, and medicine, with cutting edge and inspirational examples of programs that point the way toward achieving women's equality and fulfilling the right to health."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anita Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135938710

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Future Girl by Anita Harris Pdf

Anita Harris creates a realistic portrait of the "new girl" that has appeared in the twenty-first century--she may still play with Barbie, but she is also likely to play soccer or basketball, be assertive and may even be sexually aware, if not active. Building on this new definition, Harris explores the many key areas central to the lives of girls from a global perspective, such as girlspace, schools, work, aggression, sexuality and power.

Author : Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520970533

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Forging the Ideal Educated Girl by Shenila Khoja-Moolji Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls’/ women’s education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Educational equalization
ISBN : OCLC:254709511

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Girl's Education in the 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shannon N. Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520965188

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Gender in the Twenty-First Century by Shannon N. Davis Pdf

How far have we really progressed toward gender equality in the United States? The answer is, “not far enough.” This engaging and accessible work, aimed at students studying gender and social inequality, provides new insight into the uneven and stalled nature of the gender revolution in the twenty-first century. Honing in on key institutions—the family, higher education, the workplace, religion, the military, and sports—key scholars in the field look at why gender inequality persists. All contributions are rooted in new and original research and introductory and concluding essays provide a broad overview for students and others new to the field. The volume also explores how to address current inequities through political action, research initiatives, social mobilization, and policy changes. Conceived of as a book for gender and society classes with a mix of exciting, accessible, pointed pieces, Gender in the Twenty-First Century is an ideal book for students and scholars alike.