Gender, literacy, and life chances in Sub-Saharan Africa /

This book provides much needed evidence from research in a rural community in Sub-Saharan Africa, that show the value of literacy in increasing the life chances of women. It concludes with macro and micro level policy options that are necessary for critical (re)construction of women's lives in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Egbo, Benedicta, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, ©2000.
Colección:Language and education library ; 16.
Temas:
Women > Education > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Literacy > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Educational equalization > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Femmes > Éducation > Afrique subsaharienne.
Alphabétisation > Afrique subsaharienne.
Démocratisation de l'enseignement > Afrique subsaharienne.
EDUCATION > Students & Student Life.
Educational equalization
Literacy
Women > Education
Sub-Saharan Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Il/Literacy: Some Theoretical Considerations
  • 3 The Intersections of Gender, Literacy and Power
  • 4 The Historical and Social Context of Literacy/Education
  • 5 A Critcal Literacy Research
  • 6 Perceiving Il/literacy: Impact, Constraints and Possibilities: Literate Women's Accounts
  • 7 Perceiving Il/literacy: Non-Literate Women's Accounts
  • 8 Literacy and Life Chances: Examining the Evidence
  • 9 From Rhetoric to Praxis: (Re)constructing Women's Life Chances and Bridging the Gender Gap in Literacy/Education
  • References
  • Index

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