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Mothers and Schooling - Poverty, Gender and Educational Decision-Making in Rural Kenya (Hardcover)
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Mothers and Schooling - Poverty, Gender and Educational Decision-Making in Rural Kenya (Hardcover)
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
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This ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding
educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped
by, and reshape, rural communities. It provides a humane portrait
of the struggles faced by mothers in rural Kenya to educate their
children, despite the 'free education policy'. Based on a
prize-winning study examining mothers' attitudes to education in a
rural Kenyan community, this vividly nuanced ethnographic work
draws upon African feminist perspectives to describe the
livelihoods and aspirations of 32 mothers responsible for over 180
children. It explores the effects of mothers' school histories and
the constraining effects of land practices and patriarchal culture
on their actions. Their school choice and engagement strategies
reflect different facilitating environments, their educational
values, the use of social mothering practices and reliance on
kinship reciprocity. The findings illustrate the importance of
recognising the diversity of mothers' situations within this small
community and the pressures they face to be 'good mothers' who
school their children. Mothers and Schooling highlights the
importance of mothers' educational agency and is essential reading
for anthropologists of education, those working in gender studies,
poverty alleviation strategists, educational researchers, teachers
and policy-makers who wish to improve the success of Education for
All for the children of women living in Southern rural poverty.
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