Youth, Gender and Citizenship Study
This inter-generational gender study investigates whether and how education helps male and female youth in poor communities achieve participatory citizenship. It investigates how education can help youth and their communities protect themselves, make decisions, achieve an independent livelihood and participate in community life. Using qualitative methods, it examines
- How young men and women living in poverty construct their identities and how such identities mediate the effects of schooling and opportunities for enacting citizenship.
- The extent to which young people's strategies to break out of poverty are differentiated by gender and by schooling.
- The extent to which schooling can offer more opportunities to break out of poverty for young men and women than it does or did for their parents.
Related links:
Working Papers:
Gendered Experiences of Teaching in Poor Rural Areas of Ghana,
Researching Gender: Explorations into Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in African Contexts
Globalising the School Curriculum: Gender, EFA and Global Citizenship Education
Conference papers:
Fennell, S. & Arnot, M. (2007). Gender equality agendas in education: Contemporary research, contemporary feminist critiques. Paper presented at the UKFIET Conference on International Education and Development, 11-13 September 2007, Oxford.
Casely-Hayford, L.. Arnot, M., Chege. F., Delali, D. & Wainaina P. (2007). Conceptualising the relationship between youth, citizenship and poverty alleviation: East and West African approaches to the education of a new generation. Paper presented at the RECOUP Symposium, 'Going for Growth' UKFIET Conference on International Education and Development, 11-13 September 2007, Oxford.
Casely–Hayford, L. (2007). Gendered experiences of teaching in poor rural areas of Ghana. Paper presented at UKFIET Conference on International Education and Development, 11-13 September 2007, Oxford.
Chege, F. (2007). Gender-based violence and the making of men: Deconstructing African masculinities in gender responsive cultural frameworks. Paper presented at UKFIET Conference on International Education and Development, 11-13 September 2007, Oxford.
Samson, M., Noronha, C. & De, A. (2007). Building unequal capabilities among Delhi's youth: Preparation for future roles through schooling, training and work. Paper presented at UKFIET Conference on International Education and Development, 11-13 September 2007, Oxford.
For more information, please email Madeleine Arnot at mma1000@cam.ac.uk
