Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe Challenges and Opportunities [Hardcover]

While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world. Discrimination, violence, marginalization, and health-related issues prevail, making proper education at the middle school level crucial during this unique development time. As we continue to see the expectations for girls grow, education for girls must also find a new place within the evolving norms of political, economic, cultural and social life.

This volume takes a global look at the obstacles and enablers in girls education that can have lasting institutional, psychological and social consequences. It looks at many complex issues affecting education for adolescent girls around the world, including the underlying global demands for women in the formal workforce and the universal impact of gender-based violence, and provides a critical framework through which researchers may explore and critique these complexities.

Introduction: Watering the Seeds: The Challenges and Opportunities for Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe Sandra L. Stacki and Supriya Baily  Part I: Structural Domain1. Transitions: Girls, Schooling, and Reproductive Realities in Malawi Nancy Kendall and Zikani Kaunda  2. Girls, Education, and Narratives of Progress: Deconstructing the Discourse on Child Marriage Shenila Khoja-Moolji  3. More than Access: Overcoming Barriers to Girls Secondary Education in the Peruvian Andes Joe Levitan  Part II: Institutional Domain  4. Adolescent Girls Education, Empowerment, and Marginalization in Gujarat, India: Inclusion, Exclusion, or Assimilation? Payal Shah  5. Doorways: Preventing and Responding to School-Related, Gender-Based Violence in West Africa Emily Forsyth Queen, Lorena Gonzalez, lÓ`