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Salvi, Francesca – Gender and Education, 2018
This article examines current in-school pregnancy policy in Mozambique, Decree 39/GM/2003, discussing how it discursively constructs in-school pregnancy as a problem, thereby raising the need to regulate its occurrence. Decree 39/GM/2003 indicates that pregnant schoolgirls should be transferred to night courses in order to complete their…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Females, Dropouts, Educational Attainment
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Salvi, Francesca – Comparative Education Review, 2019
This article discusses how institutional practices reproduce and operationalize specific discourses of in-school pregnancy and motherhood in Mozambique. National Decree 39/GM/2003 indicates that girls should be transferred to night courses if pregnant, together with their partners, if also students. This article considers the implementation of…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Foreign Countries, Early Parenthood, Evening Programs