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Exploring the Bias

Year: 2009

Type: book

Abstract: Achieving the Millennium Development Goal to promote gender equality and to empower women is a continuing aim for all developing countries. Education is key to achieving this goal, and it is imperative that gender equality is implemented from the classroom onwards. The challenge for schools is to ensure that they create an ethos that promotes gender equality in all aspects of the classroom and other school activities.Through seven case studies of secondary schools in India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Samoa, Seychelles, and Trinidad & Tobago, Exploring the Bias analyses whether schools perpetuate gender stereotypes and investigates how this can be prevented. By comparing classroom practices in such diverse countries, this book provides insights and recommendations that will be useful for policy-makers and educators worldwide.

Source: Commonwealth Secretariat eBooks

DOI: 10.14217/9781848590427-en

Author: Commonwealth Secretariat

Institutions: University of the West Indies, Institute of Development Studies, University College London, Commonwealth Secretariat

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Sexuality, and Education

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4243673578

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Cites: 30

Cited by: 3

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