Informal Learning and Literacy Among Maasai Women - Education, Emancipation and Empowerment

Informationen zum Autor 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. Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Sydney, 2017, titled: The power of informal learning and literacy for women in the Maasai community, Kenya. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Taeko Takayanagi, Taeko (Teikyo University Takayanagi, Taeko (Waseda University Takayanagi, Taeko Takayanagi-Fujisaki, Taeko (Teikyo University Takayanagi-Fujisaki
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781138609907
• ISBN: 978-1-138-60990-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, EDUCATION / Non-Formal Education, Kenya, Philosophy & theory of education, Gender studies: women, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Gender studies: women and girls, Adult education, continuous learning