Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities

Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities
ISBN-10
1317671848
ISBN-13
9781317671848
Category
Education
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2015-04-10
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Sandra L. Stacki, Supriya Baily

Description

While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world. Discrimination, violence, marginalization, and health-related issues prevail, making proper education at the middle school level crucial during this unique development time. As we continue to see the expectations for girls grow, education for girls must also find a new place within the evolving norms of political, economic, cultural and social life. This volume takes a global look at the obstacles and enablers in girls’ education that can have lasting institutional, psychological and social consequences. It looks at many complex issues affecting education for adolescent girls around the world, including the underlying global demands for women in the formal workforce and the universal impact of gender-based violence, and provides a critical framework through which researchers may explore and critique these complexities.

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