Schooling and Domestic Transitions: Shifting Gender Relations and Female Agency in Rural Ghana and India

Autor/inn/en	Arnot, Madeleine; Jeffery, Roger; Casely-Hayford, Leslie; Noronha, Claire
Titel	Schooling and Domestic Transitions: Shifting Gender Relations and Female Agency in Rural Ghana and India
Quelle	In: Comparative Education, 48 (2012) 2, S.181-194 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
DOI	10.1080/03050068.2011.608896
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Youth; Rural Areas; Females; Poverty; Social Change; Interpersonal Relationship; Sex Role; Correlation; Personal Autonomy; Decision Making; Gender Differences; Intimacy; Cultural Influences; Young Adults; Outcomes of Education; Ghana; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Weibliches Geschlecht; Armut; Sozialer Wandel; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Geschlechterrolle; Korrelation; Individuelle Autonomie; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Intimität; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Indien
Abstract	Transitions to adulthood are usually defined by markers such as leaving school, starting a first job, leaving the parental home, forming a first union, marrying and having a first child. Youth policy remains strongly influenced by these linear transitions, and by the metaphor of a "pathway" from school to work and adulthood, taking little account of poverty, and the significance of micro-social changes within personal relations, which in many rural cultures have considerable importance in transitions to adulthood. This paper utilises data on social and human outcomes of schooling, collected under the RECOUP programme of research in the north of Ghana and India. Micro-reconstructions of gender roles/relations associated with communication, autonomy and decision-making are shown to have subtle implications for the transformation of young people's lives. The findings suggest that education may have unexpected and often complicating effects on "domestic transitions", particularly on the private/intimate spheres of gender relations. Transition studies need to reconsider how independent action is framed within strong patriarchal cultures. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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