Potential Capstone Research: Girls Education in the Middle East by Jharna Mehta https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s Week 4 EDGI 508 By: Jharna Mehta en-us 2017-07-23 20:55:04 UTC 2017-07-23 22:13:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png Topic Overview: Girls access to education in the Middle East jm38981 https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179258057 Girls are continuing to be excluded from receiving a basic education in the Middle East. Many are being enrolled in schools, which is an improvement from a decade. But the issue remains, of girls not receiving enough of an education to be successful in the job market. Higher education is being left out of the equation, and there is a long way to go regarding education and development. ]]> 2017-07-23 21:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179258057 Research questions jm38981 https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179258594
1) What resources can directly provided for girls in oppressed areas?

2) How does culture in the middle east play a role in girls education?

3)What factors influence girls education internally and externally?

4) How does education effect reproductive choices?

5) Which realistic jobs will women be able to take in the Middle East with a strong education?
 

]]> 2017-07-23 21:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179258594 Challenges jm38981 https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179258693 " The most worrying aspect of the crisis in education is education's inability to provide the requirements for the development of Arab societies," according to the 2002 Arab Human Development Report.1"]]> 2017-07-23 21:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179258693 Data Collection jm38981 https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179260204 Quantitative: Data collected within communities. Collecting numbers of girls receiving education. This could also be used to see what level of education is still needed. 

Qualitative: Interviews and observation to see what methods are currently being used within schools.]]> 2017-07-23 22:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179260204 Concerns jm38981 https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179260507
"But illiteracy remains high in some countries, there are still wide gender gaps in parts of the region, and the quality of the education is a major concern throughout the region."

Source: United Nations, "About the Goals" (www.developmentgoals.org/
About_the_goals.htm, accessed April 1, 2003).


]]> 2017-07-23 22:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179260507 jm38981 https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179260529 Figure 4
Female Illiteracy Rates and per Capita Income in Selected Countries, 2000



]]> 2017-07-23 22:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179260529 Sources jm38981 https://padlet.com/jm38981/xvkodxg81r0s/wish/179260572 Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, "Literacy Statistics" (www.uis.unesco.org, accessed March 11, 2003); and World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002.

UNESCO, UNESCO Statistical Yearbook 1999 (Paris: UNESCO, 1999): table II.2.

May Rihani and Cynthia Prather, Strategies for Female Education in the Middle East and North Africa (Amman, Jordan: United Nations Children's Fund, 1993).

World Bank, Engendering Development — Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001): 90-91.

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