Journal article
Mothers and their daughters' education: a comparison of global and local aspirations
- Abstract:
- Through a comparative analysis of policy texts from UN organisations and scholarly work since the 1990s this paper examines how mothers are portrayed in simplistic terms, as educated thus beneficial for their daughters’ schooling, or deprived of education causing detriment to their daughters’ future prospects. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with mothers from rural Pakistan, these global comparisons are brought into conversation with local narratives showing how mothers’ aspirations facilitate daughters’ educational opportunities. It is argued that mothers’ subjectivities have a potential to inform global policy discourses for investigating the aspirational and transformational potential of mothers in contexts of material and social constraint. The paper proposes an informed approach to educational research and policy making which seeks to understand the processes surrounding mothers’ support for their daughters’ education.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/03050068.2023.2186656
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- Comparative Education More from this journal
- Volume:
- 59
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 259-281
- Publication date:
- 2023-03-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-02-16
- DOI:
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1360-0486
- ISSN:
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0305-0068
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1335841
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pubs:1335841
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2024-02-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Aliya Khalid
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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