Gender, Literacy and Life Chances in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Benedicta Egbo

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9781853594649
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Multilingual Matters
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224
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210mm x 148mm
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Taking as a starting point the taken-for-granted assumption that literacy affects women's lives in very important ways, the author 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. The book concludes with macro and micro level policy options that are necessary for critical (re)construction of women's lives in the region and elsewhere.

Benedicta Egbo is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Windsor, Canada after having completed her doctorate at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She was born in Nigeria where she taught at the secondary school level and later held an appointment as a Senior Inspector of Education at the Ministry of Education in Benin City.

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 Critical 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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