Full Description
This seminal volume fills a gap in current literature on education, gender, and development by giving voice to the Arab Gulf region, contrasting key issues with those felt globally in order to support a more sustainable, gender‑equitable future of education in the region.
Heavily linked to Sustainable Development Goal 4 - which calls for an inclusive and equitable quality of education for all - this book presents case studies on a wide range of issues such as school attainment, academic performance, and gender disparities within higher education in the Arabian Gulf, using quantitative research, qualitative interviews, and documentary analysis to make broader connections to issues of global significance. Exploring a deeper and more holistic understanding of the external factors which affect both participation and performance within education and academic settings, this book considers the influence of home support systems as well as cultural and familial factors which can lead to large‑scale gendered differences in learning attitudes, attendance, and even testing, in the region.
Ultimately supporting those in the education sector through frameworks of gender inclusion in both schools and higher educational settings, this volume will be of use to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students involved with higher education, school leadership, management and administration, sociology of education, and gender studies in the Arab Gulf region more broadly.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Addressing the faculty gender imbalance in higher education: A framework for inclusion from the United Arab Emirates
3. The 'Virtual Centre for Women & Leadership (MENA)': From research to social impact
4. Uncovering Gender imbalance in School Leadership in the Gulf: Towards a Strategy for Increasing Male Leaders in UAE Public Schools
5. How Do Teacher Education Policies Address Gender Equity? Examining Global Discourses and Local Allocations in the United Arab Emirates
6. Examining Motivations for Pursuing Mathematics: Perspectives of Senior High School Girls in the UAE
7. Gender differences in science achievement and attitudes toward science in the Arabian Gulf
8. Perceptions of Brilliance and its impact on learning: Gendered Perspectives
9. Factors Contributing to Grade 4 Mathematics Performance in the GCC Countries: Addressing Gender Equity
10. Navigating Gender Equity in Science Achievement among GCC Countries: Policy Insights from the UAE
11. What causes gender disparities in schools and other settings in GCC countries: and how can they be overcome?
12. Gender in Education: Next Steps
