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Women and power : education, religion and identity / Olutoyin Mejiuni.

By: Series: Codesria book seriesPublication details: Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (xxxii, 203 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9782869785762
  • 2869785763
  • 9782869785748
  • 2869785747
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women and power.DDC classification:
  • 371.82209669 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1815.5 .M45 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The Methodology; 2. Women's Civic-Political Participation Towards an Equitable and Humane Democratic Order; 3. The Subordinate Role of Women in the Private and Public Spheres; 4. Who am I? Prescribing Women's Identities; 5. The Violence of Power: Power Relations and Women's Experience of Violence; 6. Women's Identities and Power; 7. Is Formal Education Empowering?; Conclusion and Recommendations.
Summary: Education is an important tool for the development of human potential. Organizations and individuals interested in development consider knowledge, skills and attitudes, obtained through formal, non-formal and incidental learning, as invaluable assets. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect on fundamental elements that shape the process through which education is attained: How do people learn, and what are the conditions that facilitate effective learning? Answers to these questions demonstrate that no education can be politically neutral, because there is no value-free education. The traditiona.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194).

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Education is an important tool for the development of human potential. Organizations and individuals interested in development consider knowledge, skills and attitudes, obtained through formal, non-formal and incidental learning, as invaluable assets. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect on fundamental elements that shape the process through which education is attained: How do people learn, and what are the conditions that facilitate effective learning? Answers to these questions demonstrate that no education can be politically neutral, because there is no value-free education. The traditiona.

1. The Methodology; 2. Women's Civic-Political Participation Towards an Equitable and Humane Democratic Order; 3. The Subordinate Role of Women in the Private and Public Spheres; 4. Who am I? Prescribing Women's Identities; 5. The Violence of Power: Power Relations and Women's Experience of Violence; 6. Women's Identities and Power; 7. Is Formal Education Empowering?; Conclusion and Recommendations.

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