Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Punjab, Pakistan

Autor/inn/en	Purewal, Navtej; Hashmi, Naimatullah
Titel	Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36 (2015) 7, S.977-995 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2014.883274
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Females; Womens Education; Cultural Influences; Parent Attitudes; Outcomes of Education; Social Influences; Rural Areas; Gender Bias; Surveys; Semi Structured Interviews; Questionnaires; Attitude Measures; Negative Attitudes; Educational Attainment; Likert Scales; Fathers; Mothers; Qualitative Research; Pakistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Weibliches Geschlecht; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Elternverhalten; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Sozialer Einfluss; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Geschlechterstereotyp; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Fragebogen; Negative Fixierung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Likert-Skala; Mother; Mutter; Qualitative Forschung
Abstract	This article focuses upon perceptions of girls' education in the family context within which decisions around children's education and opportunities are made. The article presents a framework showing how parental attitudes to girls' education are shaped by an objective logic framed by the notion of returns, relating to potential benefits of daughters' education, and respectability, relating to girls' modesty and threats that education may present to normative expectations for girls. Drawing upon data collected in 2011 in rural areas of the districts of Faisalabad (Jaranwala town) and Chiniot (Tehsil Chiniot) in the province of Punjab, the study highlights how assumptions around the liberating effects of education implicit in global education programmes fail to take into account cultural values around gender norms that are central to informing parental attitudes towards their daughters' prospects for education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01