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Unterhalter, Elaine – Theory and Research in Education, 2012
The article considers the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) concerned with poverty, education and gender (MDG 1, MDG 2 and MDG 3). Despite considerable achievements associated with the MDG approach, which entails international and national target setting and monitoring, a sharp distinction between areas of social policy is entailed. In addition…
Descriptors: Poverty, Access to Education, Sex Fairness, Social Justice
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Dieltiens, Veerle; Unterhalter, Elaine; Letsatsi, Setungoane; North, Amy – Perspectives in Education, 2009
Gender equity is one of the foundational principles of the national Department of Education, but there is not a shared understanding of its meaning. Based on interviews conducted in 2008 with officials in the Department of Education, we argue that there are two basic approaches to gender equity. The first, which we term "gender blind",…
Descriptors: Females, Sex Fairness, Politics of Education, Gender Discrimination
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Unterhalter, Elaine – Comparative Education, 2009
Commentary on gender equality in education as a global issue often assesses what makes policy work or why certain emphases in policy are selected. The article recasts this division by looking not so much at the separation between policy and its enactment, but at the forms of mobility entailed in the movement between these different poles. It…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Access to Education