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Women, Literacy and Development: Routledge Research in Literacy

Editat de Anna Robinson-Pant
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 dec 2014
Women's literacy is often assumed to be the key to promoting better health, family planning and nutrition in the developing world. This has dominated much development research and has led to women's literacy being promoted by governments and aid agencies as the key to improving the lives of poor families. High dropout rates from literacy programmes suggest that the assumed link between women's literacy and development can be disputed.
This book explores why women themselves want to learn to read and write and why, all too often, they decide that literacy classes are not for them.
Bringing together the experiences of researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in more than a dozen countries, this edited volume presents alternative viewpoints on gender, development and literacy through detailed first-hand accounts. Rather than seeing literacy as a set of technical skills to be handed over in classrooms, these writers give new meaning to key terms such as 'barriers', 'culture', 'empowerment' and 'motivation'.
Divided into three sections, this text examines new research approaches, a gendered perspective on literacy policy and programming, and implementation of literacy projects in African, Asian and South American contexts. With new insights and groundbreaking research, this collection will interest academics and professionals working in the fields of development, education and gender studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138866577
ISBN-10: 1138866571
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 9 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Literacy

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional

Cuprins

Part 1: Questioning Women's Literacy: New Research Approaches  1. The Illiterate Woman: Changing Approaches to Researching Women's Literacy  2. Distorted Mirrors: (de)centring of the 'illiterate Indian Village Woman' Through Ethnographic Research Narratives  3. Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Researching Women's Literacy Programmes  4. Creating the Gender Text: Literacy and Discourse in Rural El Salvador  5. Qualitative Methods in Researching Women's Literacy: A Case Study   6. A Self-Reflexive Analysis of Power and Positionality: Toward a Feminist Praxis  Part 2: Identifying the Issues: A Gendered Perspective on Literary Policy and Programming  7. Functional Literacy, Gender and Identities: Policy and Practice   8. Women are Lions in Dresses: Negotiating Gender Relations in REFLECT Learning Circles in Lesotho 9. Closing the gap: Issues in Gender Integrated Training of Adult Literacy Facilitators: Possibilities, Progress and Resistance  10. Women, Literacy, Development and Gender: A Telling Case Involving a HIV Positive Woman  Part 3: Learning from Experience  11. I Will Stay Here Until I Die: A Critical Analysis of the Muthande Literacy Programme 12. We Were Nowhere  We Were Not (present) on Any Maps  Literacy Brought us to the Forefront: Literacy and Empowering Processes for Dalit Community Women in a Mumbai Slum  13. Functional Participation? Questioning Participatory Attempts at Reshaping

Notă biografică

Anna Robinson-Pant is a Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Research in Education at the University of East Anglia. As a development planner, teacher trainer and researcher with various international aid agencies, she has spent much of her working life in South Asia. Her publications include Why Eat Green Cucumber at the Time of Dying? (2001), an ethnographic study of women's literacy programmes in Nepal which won the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research.

Descriere

This book presents a new perspective on the assumed links between women's literacy and development and explores current innovative approaches to research and policy around women's literacy.