UID:
almahu_9949385412502882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781003158936
,
1003158935
,
9781000481075
,
1000481077
,
9781000481136
,
1000481131
Series Statement:
Education, poverty and international development series
Content:
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 recognizing 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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lukalo, Fibian Mothers and schooling London : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 0367746514
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003158936
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003158936
