Growing Up in Kenya: Rural Schooling and Girls (Rethinking Childhood, Band 21) - Softcover

Growing Up in Kenya (Paperback)

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Growing Up in Kenya: Rural Schooling and Girls reveals the clash between the traditional values and roles of women and the school culture and expectations. Traditionally, women were brought up to value the roles of wife, mother, and cultivator. This book shows the struggle rural girls experience as they try to fit into these traditional roles while meeting the expectations of the school curriculum. Although education is central to a woman's status, because it affects every other aspect of her life, studies indicate that parents have lower occupational aspirations for their daughters than for their sons. This is true for higher socio-economic groups as well as when the daughters' academic performance is superior to that of the sons'. Mungai (education, Adelphi University) investigates the traditional beliefs, practices, and classroom issues that hinder the education of females in rural Kenya. Research findings and analysis are framed by the story of a village girl with high aspirations and the teacher who encouraged her. This work lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Artikel-Nr. 9780820452722

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