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TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconsidering girls’ education in Turkey from a capabilities and feminist perspective
AU - Cin, Firdevs Melis
AU - Walker, Melanie
PY - 2016/7
Y1 - 2016/7
N2 - This paper re-considers girls’ education in Turkey from both a capabilities and a feminist perspective. First, it critically looks at the policies, legislation, and NGO and government led campaigns aiming to increase girls’ enrolment, and points out the lack of feminist perspectives and concerns in these initiatives. Then, drawing from 20 in-depth interviews with girls and 5 interviews with teachers in the most socio-economically deprived region of Turkey, the paper explores girls’ schooling and educational opportunities in Eastern Turkey from a combined capabilities and feminist perspective, in order to generate a richer information basis than numbers alone for policy and evaluation. The findings tease out capabilities which are missing in the focus of policies and campaigns, and invite a re-design of educational policies and initiatives from a capabilities-focused praxis that is context and gender sensitive.
AB - This paper re-considers girls’ education in Turkey from both a capabilities and a feminist perspective. First, it critically looks at the policies, legislation, and NGO and government led campaigns aiming to increase girls’ enrolment, and points out the lack of feminist perspectives and concerns in these initiatives. Then, drawing from 20 in-depth interviews with girls and 5 interviews with teachers in the most socio-economically deprived region of Turkey, the paper explores girls’ schooling and educational opportunities in Eastern Turkey from a combined capabilities and feminist perspective, in order to generate a richer information basis than numbers alone for policy and evaluation. The findings tease out capabilities which are missing in the focus of policies and campaigns, and invite a re-design of educational policies and initiatives from a capabilities-focused praxis that is context and gender sensitive.
KW - Girls’ education
KW - Gender equality
KW - Capabilities approach
KW - Turkey
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.02.007
DO - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.02.007
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 134
EP - 143
JO - International Journal of Educational Development
JF - International Journal of Educational Development
SN - 0738-0593
ER -