Gender, schooling and global social justice: reflections from studies in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Tanzania

Professor Elaine Unterhalter

Professor Unterhalter will look at the range of ways in which goals about gender and education have been positioned in development frameworks and the tensions between international, national and local contexts in realizing an approach based on participation, sustainability, equity and human rights.

Bio

Elaine Unterhalter is a Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education. She has more than 25 years experience working on themes concerned with gender, race and class inequalities and their bearing on education. Her specialist interests are in the capability approach and human development and education in Africa, particularly South Africa. Her current concerns are with education, poverty and global social justice. Elaine’s book Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice won first prize in the Society of Education Studies book awards in 2008. She is currently working with a number of UN agencies on aspects of gender and the MDGs.

Organiser: Bloomsbury Gender Network and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS)

Contact email: N.S.Al-Ali@soas.ac.uk