Principal Investigator: Elaine Sara Unterhalter. Lead Organisation: Institute of Education
Co-investigators: Jennifer Anne Karlsson; Christopher Andrew Yates; Veerle Dieltiens
This project looks at how gender equality in and through schooling in contexts of poverty is understood, who participates in implementation, what meanings of gender, schooling and global relations are negotiated, what constraints are experienced, in what ways these are overcome, and what concerns about global obligations emerge.
A key focus is what conditions how global policy goals are interpreted and acted on in different sites.
Case study research will be conducted in Kenya and South Africa, two countries where reforming governments have sought to address questions of poverty and gender in the expansion of education provision. In each country data will be collected in five sites: the national Department of Education, a provincial education department, a rural primary school, the offices of a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) engaging with global education and poverty policy, and an education NGO operating at a local level.
The main methods of data collection will be documentary analysis, individual and group interviews, focus group discussions, and observations.
Advisory committees in Kenya and South Africa will guide the process of data collection, comment critically on emerging analysis, and give support with dissemination.
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