This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the relationship between the social structure and individual agency conditions and governs girls' educational participation in Nepal.
Autorentext
Mary Ann Maslak is assistant professor of education at St. John's University (School of Education and Human Services Division of Administrative and Instructional Leadership).
Inhalt
Introduction Chapter 1: The Case of a Nepali Village: A Point of Entry to the Problem of Girls' Educational Participation Chapter 2: South Asian Educational Policies Chapter 3: Feminist Thought, Educational Development Literature, and Choices Made for Girls' Education: Feminist Standpoint as Investigative Perspective and Analytic Tool Chapter 4: Social Theory's Methodological Relationism and Girls' Educational Participation Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Girls' Educational Participation in Nepal Chapter 6:Religion and Girls' Educational Participation in Nepal Chapter 7: Implications for the Future of Girls' Education in Nepal