Making Gender Matter: Paradigms for Equality, Equity, and Excellence

  • Maureen K. Porter
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Part of the International and Development Education book series (INTDE)

Abstract

International policy analysis and practice has been reshaped by scholars and advocates who offer new paradigms for thinking about the essential role that gender plays in program design, implementation, and assessment. Early feminist work that fundamentally affirmed the contributions of girls’ schooling to economic well-being has grown to become a multifaceted, multinational, networked discourse about the very meanings of gender and education. Spurred on by international summits, declarations of human rights, and interagency collaborations, women and men who work in international education policy now can draw on a set of complementary paradigms that offer guidelines and tools that can help us to achieve success.

Keywords

Social Justice Gender Equality Network Discourse Interagency Collaboration Gender Matter 
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