Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women: Education, Emancipation and Empowerment

ISBN-13: 9781032089874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Taeko Takayanagi

Opis

Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women highlights the importance and role of informal education in the emancipation and development of Maasai village women in Kenya. Using a postcolonial feminist framework, it examines linkages between informal learning and literacy, human development and gender inequality.

Spis treści

Dedication  List of Figures and Tables  List of Photography  Acknowledgements  Foreword  List of Abbreviations  Glossary  Introduction: Exploring the Notion of Informal Learning and Literacy from a Maasai Women’s Perspective  Chapter 1: Postcolonial feminist Theory  Chapter 2: Women’s Informal Learning and Empowerment in the Context of Development  Chapter 3: Using an Ethnological Research Framework  Chapter 4: Socio-Cultural Background of the Maasai in Kenya  Chapter 5: Narratives and Process Observation of Village Women  Chapter 6: Interview Analysis of Women’s Group Leaders and Bureaucrats  Chapter 7: Conclusion

O autorze

Taeko Takayanagi is a JSPS Research Fellow at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She received her PhD in Education from the University of Sydney and her MA in Education from the University of Manchester.