Private Schooling and Mental Models about Girls' Schooling in India

Autor/in	Srivastava, Prachi
Titel	Private Schooling and Mental Models about Girls' Schooling in India
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 36 (2006) 4, S.497-514 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Daughters; Disadvantaged; Private Schools; Females; Womens Education; Gender Bias; Fees; Tuition; School Choice; Socioeconomic Influences; Context Effect; Urban Schools; Rural Schools; Access to Education; Parent Attitudes; Decision Making; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Daughter; Tochter; Private school; Privatschule; Weibliches Geschlecht; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Geschlechterstereotyp; Gebühren; Studiengebühren; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Rural area; Rural areas; Ländlicher Raum; Schulen; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Elternverhalten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Indien
Abstract	This paper presents disadvantaged households' "mental models" about low-fee private (LFP) schooling for their daughters in a study in Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. It argues that assumptions in the dominant discourse on girls' schooling in India obscure the complex negotiations and trade-offs disadvantaged families make when considering schooling choices for their daughters. Furthermore, they obscure a focus on change resulting from and intertwined with changing socio-economic structures and institutional contexts for schooling over time. The changing institutional context for education through increased LFP provision is the focus for analysis. Data show that participants were not selective in choosing the LFP sector by gender, and thought of it as representing the best chance for their daughters' livelihoods. (Contains 3 tables, 1 figure and 9 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10