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Girls Education: towards a roadmap

Girls Education: towards a roadmap. Ratna M. Sudarshan, ISST 18 November 2010. Expected Outputs. Annotated bibliography on girls education in India Research Paper on status and challenges of girls education in India Proposed roadmap for girls education. Suggested outline of paper.

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Girls Education: towards a roadmap

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  1. Girls Education: towards a roadmap Ratna M. Sudarshan, ISST 18 November 2010

  2. Expected Outputs • Annotated bibliography on girls education in India • Research Paper on status and challenges of girls education in India • Proposed roadmap for girls education

  3. Suggested outline of paper • Context: persisting challenges • Situating education within the gender equality discourse • Girls education: vision for action • Policy on girls education/ towards a roadmap • Resources, within and outside the education sector

  4. Context • Overall gender parity index shows considerable progress: 0.94 at primary and 0.92 at upper primary level • But data on children out of school (never enrolled + drop outs) shows wide variation by gender, caste, location. (data source used here: EdCil)

  5. Social Group Wise children out of school as a % of total children out of school: all India

  6. Children OoS as percentage of all children OoS (source: EdCil)

  7. Children OoS as %age of all children in that age group and social class: All India

  8. Children Out of School as a % of total children in the social group: Rajasthan

  9. Children OoS as %age of population 6-14 in social group: Bihar

  10. Challenges • Persisting systemic biases • Understanding the role of the private sector in education • Reaching to the most deprived – location, caste, income, gender

  11. Education within gender equality discourse, and gender within education discourse • Education for women – pre and post Independence • Education for social change – Mahila Samakhya • Special programmes – KGBV, NPEGEL, training for Muslim girls education • However limited linkage between ECCE and schooling; need for broader focus on adolescent girls

  12. Vision for Action: what steps can be taken • Within education • Around education

  13. ‘Pressure points’ – hh, school, community • No of animals per family, distance to forest, drinking water sources (Vaidyanathan and Nair 2001) • Suggestions from consultations – schools and classroom practices, curricula • Teacher recruitment, education • Incentives eg transport subsidies/ escorts • Gender discourse with village groups

  14. Roadmap • Long term engagement – changing deep seated social norms around gender • Linking pre school to school, working with adolescents • Learning from innovative models (govt and non govt) • Building links across sectors (infrastructure, women and child….) • Responding to diversity

  15. Thank you

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