Gender, schooling and global social justice, by Elaine Unterhalter

International Journal of Educational Development, 2013

International Journal of Educational Development, 2012

Ahmad Zahir Wali, 2019

The main vision of the modern societies is to reduce gender inequality. There are several international organizations and NGOs that are in the quest for reducing this gap between males and females. Indeed, there are many places in the world where gender diversity is in its high rate. In order to know more about international gender inequality issues in the global educat ional context, this paper presents six countries where Australia and Singapore have low, Malaysia and Thailand Middle, and Afghanistan and Nigeria high gender diversity issues in their educational systems. Furthermore, this paper identifies the process of overcoming gender inequality in the former six countries which can be a valuable source for other countries that feel the need to change. Data for the paper was collected from the available review of literature.

2003

2002

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2014

This review reveals a number of challenges in interventions to improve girls’ education and gender equality. For example targeted cash transfers may improve the chances of getting more girls into school and promote keeping them in school but increases in enrolment may have an adverse effect on learning achievement. Similarly girls’ only targeted scholarships to attend school may have adverse effects in terms of isolating the selected girls from their friends and raising feelings of the lack of fairness to disadvantaged boys. There is also insufficient evidence that the provision of toilets although beneficial on their own can improves enrolment progression or achievement. Employment of female teachers per se although essential is not enough but teacher training for higher levels of subject knowledge and gender sensitivity is vitally important for girls’ learning improvement. And extra-curricular clubs which focus on gender equality issues are an important space where girls and boys ...

2011

Girls' education has been promoted by the international development community for over two decades; however, it has proven harder to promote gender equality through education than it has been to promote gender parity in education. Of significance is the global circulation and coexistence of two competing rationales for the importance of girls' education: economic efficiency and social justice. The cost of ignoring how and why Southern governments and their development partners choose to promote girls' education is high: an over-emphasis on economic efficiency can mean that the root causes of gendered inequalities in society remain unchallenged, and more social justice-oriented reforms become marginalized.

2014

Article history: Received 11 September 2013 Received in revised form 21 November 2013 Accepted 25 November 2013 Available online 29 December 2013