Mothers and schooling : poverty, gender and educational decision-making in rural Kenya

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    • Lukalo, Fibian Kavulani

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Mothers and schooling : poverty, gender and educational decision-making in rural Kenya

Fibian Lukalo

（Education, poverty, and international development）

Routledge, 2022

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1 Mothers and school decision-making: An introduction An introduction Situating the study The structure of the book PART I Uncovering spaces for mothers' voices 2 Gendered households and mothering Contextualising schooling African feminist perspectives Reflections 3 Researching mothers' lives in situ Living in Wela The ethics of naming, hearing and valuing Research dynamics and validations Concluding comments PART II Mothers' school choices: educational histories, aspirations and constraints 4 Education in Wela - 'the hunched-back village' Children: education, domestic life and resources Family patterns of schooling Conclusion 5 Schooling in mothers' lives: childhood memories of support, silence and denial Gendered memories: the marginalising of girls' education Personal resilience: the pursuit of 'becoming educated' Self-blame: the guilt associated with insufficient schooling Reflections 6 Mothers at the heart of decision-making 'Possessing certificates': mothers as teachers 'We reached': choice dilemmas of mothers with some schooling Arduous school encounters: disability and infirmity Mothers' approaches to schooling 7 Schooling 'all' children? The challenges of social mothering Grandmothers in charge of schooling Social mothering: contingency schooling plans Paternity: mothers keeping their own children close Fostering children: paternities and reciprocal arrangements Thoughts on social mothering PART III Mothers' agency: Decisions, discourses and school engagement strategies 8 A typology of mothers' educational decision-making: from aspirations to school engagements Schooling, poverty and social advancement: fractured possibilities Mothers' aspirations and school engagements Facilitating environments and mother - school strategies Schooling gains in mothers' worlds 9 Epilogue: mothers' educational agency Who are you? Schooling for all? Looking to the future Glossary Index

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