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Empowered to Contest the Terms of Empowerment? Empowerment and Development in a Transnational Women's Education Project
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Khurshid, Ayesha – Comparative Education Review, 2016
The contemporary paradigm of international development invests in individuals and communities as the main agents of development. In this paradigm, education is presented as the central avenue for individuals and communities to generate resources and networks to empower themselves. Some development and feminist scholars have critiqued this intense…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Womens Education, Neoliberalism
Envisioning an Alternative to the Neoliberalization of Education in the Global South: The Aga Khan's Philosophies of Education
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Khoja-Moolji, Shenila S. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
Studies in education over the past decade highlight the hijacking of educational agendas by neoliberal rationalities and logics. I illustrate these processes in relation to transnational campaigns for girls' education, where the purpose of "education" is reduced to producing wage-based labor and an accumulation of skills that enhance…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Speeches, Interviews, Females
Education of Hazara Girls in a Diaspora: Education as Empowerment and an Agent of Change
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Changezi, Sofie Haug; Biseth, Heidi – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2011
Afghanistan is a country which has experienced years of conflict and war. This unrest has forced large numbers of Afghans into diasporas, Hazaras comprising one of these groups. Hazaras have mainly fled from rural Hazarajat to more urban areas in Pakistan. Marginalization of Hazaras in general and girls in particular, both in Afghanistan and…
Descriptors: Females, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries, Womens Education
Higher Education and Women's Empowerment in Pakistan
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Malik, Samina; Courtney, Kathy – Gender and Education, 2011
This paper summarises the findings of a 2005 doctoral study by Malik which explored to what extent participation in higher education offers empowerment to women in Pakistan. A survey instrument was used to question female faculty members and female students from 10 public universities in Pakistan; 1290 students and 290 faculty members responded.…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Universities, Women Faculty
Framing Discourses of Possibility and Constraint in the Empowerment of Muslim Girls: Issues of Religion, Race, Ethnicity and Culture
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Keddie, Amanda – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2011
This paper presents the stories of three female Muslim educators actively engaged in empowering Muslim girls in their school/community liaison roles. The stories are drawn from a broader qualitative and predominantly interview-based research project that investigated issues of teaching and social justice in three English schools. Through lenses…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Muslims, Females, Student Empowerment
Successful Leadership Practices of Head Teachers for School Improvement: Some Evidence from Pakistan
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Salfi, Naseer Ahmad – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to identify the successful leadership practices of head teachers for school improvement at secondary level in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach: The study was descriptive (survey type) in nature. It was conducted on a sample of 351 secondary school head teachers, 702 elementary and secondary school…
Descriptors: Evidence, Interviews, Educational Change, Foreign Countries