Female School Participation in West Africa : Success Factors

Female School Participation in West Africa : Success Factors

The United Nations' Special Initiative for Africa (UNSIA) focuses on selected low- enrollment African countries in an effort to help them find pragmatic, sustainable solutions to the problems that have depressed primary school enrollments for...

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Main Author:	Maige-Toure, Aminata
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACADEMIC LEARNING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACHIEVEMENT ADULT LITERACY CIVIL SOCIETY CLASSROOM CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT CLASSROOM STUDIES CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT CULTURAL PRACTICES CURRICULUM DECENTRALIZATION DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN EDUCATING GIRLS EDUCATION FOR ALL EDUCATION PROJECTS EDUCATIONAL POLICY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY ENROLLMENT FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE SCHOOLING FEMALE TEACHERS GENDER DIFFERENTIATION GENDER DISCRIMINATION GENDER ISSUES GENDER ROLES GIRLS GIRLS IN SCHOOL HUMAN RESOURCES HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION QUALITY JOB MARKET KNOWLEDGE BASE LEARNING LEVEL OF EDUCATION LITERATURE LOCAL COMMUNITIES NATIONAL POLICIES PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS QUALITY OF TEACHING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL MAPPING SCHOOL MODEL SCHOOL PARTICIPATION SCHOOL POLICIES SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SERVICE TRAINING SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS TEACHER TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONS TEACHING TEACHING ENVIRONMENT TEACHING METHODS TEACHING-LEARNING TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS TEXTBOOKS TRAINING OF TEACHERS USE OF TEXTBOOKS WOMEN TEACHERS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/08/12355981/female-school-participation-west-africa-success-factors http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9835

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Summary:	The United Nations' Special Initiative for Africa (UNSIA) focuses on selected low- enrollment African countries in an effort to help them find pragmatic, sustainable solutions to the problems that have depressed primary school enrollments for so long. As part of this process, a four-country study was conducted between November 1998 and May 1999 in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Mauritania. The study specially focused on identifying and understanding the practices likely to promote female school participation in a significant way. One of the study's main assumptions is that the body of knowledge on girls' education and the interest accorded to it in the last ten years in Africa should already have resulted in improved parents' and communities' attitudes, school policies, and classroom management approaches. These improvements should in turn lead to change in girls' behavior and performance in school, and thus greater female survival, confidence, achievement and retention. Moreover, this particular study will help identify ways of improving what we do to advance girls' schooling.