Globalising the school curriculum: gender, EFA and global citizenship education
Autor/in:
Marshall, Harriet; Arnot, Madeleine
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 17), 2008. 17 S
Inhalt: Whilst the link between access, quality of schooling and gender equality in promotion Education for All is vital, the problematic nature of this agenda for the curriculum in developing countries is not sufficiently recognized. Previous sociological research indicates the contradictions between the social reproductive elements and the egalitarian potential of a 'globalised curriculum' especially in the complex postcolonial scenario of developing economies. A close reading of the EFA Global Monitoring Reports highlights rights within and through the curriculum, representing the 'curriculum as opportunity', 'curriculum as reform' and 'curriculum as a democratic tool'. However, gender equality represents a deeper challenge to dominant knowledge forms than that represented by a gender fair/ friendly curriculum or a gender neutral curriculum. Global citizenship education controversially brings female subordination and gender power into the curriculum but its potential in relation to the goals of EFA is not proven. Localized historical and socio-cultural investigations are needed into the gendering of national school knowledge in non-Western environments, and its relationship to material and socio-cultural conditions of gender relations. Such investigations could account for different types of gender performances in school, and offer a transformative politics of recognition as well as redistribution.
Global gender goals and the construction of equality: conceptual dilemmas and policy practice
Autor/in:
Colclough, Christopher
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 2), 2007. 20 S
Inhalt: The achievement of gender equality in education, and of women's empowerment more generally, have recently become established amongst the highest international priorities for policy action. This paper examines the processes by which they came to be included amongst the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It argues that the revised targets to 2015 are more practicable than earlier goals. However, it shows that rates of progress will need to be improved, and that financial support from the north is still running at less than half the required levels. Goal achievement presupposes some agreed understanding of the meaning of gender equality. The paper reveals important contradictions between the language of analysis and the vocabulary of policy. Finally, it examines some of the instruments available for monitoring progress and building pressure for policy reform. It shows that failures to meet policy undertakings are as evident – and as serious in their implications for the possibility of achieving the MDGs – amongst aid donors as they are amongst developing-country governments themselves.
Schlagwörter:gender; Chancengleichheit; Menschenrechte; development policy; combating poverty; internationale Hilfe; Armutsbekämpfung; equality of rights; human rights; educational opportunity; woman; Entwicklungspolitik; Gleichberechtigung; Bildungschance; social inequality; equal opportunity; soziale Ungleichheit; international aid; education; international aid; gender equality; women's empowerment; Millennium Development Goals
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Ein Balanceakt? Dual Career Couples in den Berufsfeldern der Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften
Titelübersetzung:A balancing act? Dual career couples in the occupational fields of natural and engineering sciences
Autor/in:
Könekamp, Bärbel; Haffner, Yvonne
Quelle: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS); Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert; Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie "Soziale Ungleichheit - kulturelle Unterschiede"; Frankfurt am Main, 2006. S 4711-4712
Schlagwörter:engineer; Federal Republic of Germany; foreign countries; Ehepartner; Gleichberechtigung; spouse; equal opportunity; beruflicher Aufstieg; Ingenieur; Ausland; career advancement; Chancengleichheit; employer; Ehepaar; equality of rights; Karriere; woman; Beruf; married couple; Akademiker; natural sciences; Naturwissenschaft; Arbeitgeber; occupation; career; academic
SSOAR Kategorie:Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie