Growing Up in Kenya

Rural Schooling and Girls

von Ann Mungai

116 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Growing Up in Kenya: Rural Schooling and Girls reveals the clash between the traditional values and roles of women and the school culture and expectations. Traditionally, women were brought up to value the roles of wife, mother, and cultivator. This book shows the struggle rural girls experience as they try to fit into these traditional roles while meeting the expectations of the school curriculum. Although education is central to a woman’s status, because it affects every other aspect of her life, studies indicate that parents have lower occupational aspirations for their daughters than for their sons. This is true for higher socio-economic groups as well as when the daughters’ academic performance is superior to that of the sons’.

• Reihe: Rethinking Childhood
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Volksglaube Folklore-, Mythen- und Legendenforschung
• ISBN: 9780820452722
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2002
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York