Education research gender, education and development - A partially annotated and
selective bibliography - Education Research Paper No. 19, 1997, 250 p.
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Introduction
In theory a bibliography on the interconnected issues of gender, education and
development could embrace a massive temporal and spatial scale: millennial and
global. In practice there has to be selection, and this publication resides within a range
of parameters that determines its rationale.
The initial step in this rationale is the motivation for its compilation, which is to follow
up the ODA Research Report of 1991 on Factors Affecting Female Participation in
Education in Six Developing Countries. (That report has been revised, updated and
reissued at the same time as this study.). Such a description immediately limits the
range of nation states involved but also introduces problems of definition. Conventions
such as 'Third World', 'Developing Countries' and 'The South' are all imperfect as the
extremely disparate rates of development both between and within countries that tend to
fall within such categories continue to deepen and diverge. Rather than seek to resolve
this problem, we have decided to rest with traditional regional groupings as listed on
the contents page above. All could be contentious, but are at least easily recognised,
with real problems existing only on the margins and interfaces, where we have made
arbitrary decisions as to inclusion or exclusion. In areas where in recent decades there
has been massive economic growth in some countries, for example the Middle East and
South East Asia, we have decided to include all component states despite the fact that
there are levels of development in such places that exceed those of most parts of the
traditionally perceived 'industrialised world'.
Consequently the main frame structure of the bibliography is that of single traditional
regional groupings of nation states, before which there is a section comprising selected
publications that seek to address one or more of the related issues on a global scale.
Within each regional grouping we begin with items that operate at that scale, for
example 'Latin America' or 'Sub-Saharan' Africa, before proceeding with the
component nation-states in alphabetical order. No significance at all is ascribed to the
order in which regions, and therefore countries, appear in this bibliography.
Within this broad geographical framework we have then operated a number of criteria
in the selection of items to be included. This is in no respect an exhaustive list and does
not pretend to be so. A key plank in the rationale is that it should be useful, therefore