Zuse including adolescent girls in
gender education and development
research with a focus on Tibetan girls
in China so why should scholars and
practitioners care about adolescent
girls there are a few points here first
of all um adolescence is an intermediary
life stage between childhood and
adulthood and it's also a time when
girls are taking on new roles in their
societies and so these factors can
impact schooling and are also
interesting sites of negotiation and
renegotiation I think this is an
important point because in developing
programs and projects and policies that
address adolescent girls it's important
to consider their roles in society and
in their particular contexts so I'm
going to be looking at literature in
adolescence and gender education and
development to focus on which of these
three views of adolescents is most
relevant for studying adolescent girls
and their educational trajectories in
Tibetan areas of China might be three
gender approaches are wid post
structural perspectives and
anthropological perspectives within wid
I'm focusing on social rates of return
and gender parity so the social rates of
return are the social cost of education
subtracted from the social benefits such
as reduced infant mortality and
increased GDP in terms of post
structural perspectives these are often
ways of analyzing words for example
analyzing the feminist modern or the
ideal Muslim educated girl and in this
particular case I'll be do using a
critique of the feminist modern which we
talked about in terms of various and
I'll also be looking a little bit at how
genealogy is you
- tres constructions of educated Muslim
girls across time my third body of
literature is the anthropological
perspective of gender education and
development which we haven't talked
about in class but basically this
entails more ethnographic research and
what it brings up in terms of
adolescents is a lot of negotiation and
renegotiation of what it means to come
of age as an educated person so now I'm
going to be talking about biological
view three views of adolescents and the
ways they work with wid and post
structuralism and and their political
perspectives so the first one is
biological views of adolescents and in
this case adolescence is considered a
process of biological and emotional
change and I looked at two groups of
wind scholars
Montgomery and Oscar and Thornton both
of them were asking the question is
menstruation a barrier to gender parity
and you'll remember that gender parity
is necessary to achieve the social
benefits of education and they both
conducted studies where they provided
men store products and/or puberty
education to see if these would affect
the gift school attendance rates and in
Montgomery's case they did reduce
absences but in Oscar and Thornton's
case they found that menstruation did
not actually impact school attendance so
my second group is associate historical
and post structural perspectives in this
group its adolescent this is considered
something that is constructed for
instance in the u.s. adolescence was
created in order to remove young people
from the workforce during the Great
Depression as for gender education and
development scholars I chose
koujun will Gia's 2018 book about
forging the ideal educated girl and she
was looking at a variety of texts from
being early 1900s and then 1947 to 67
and then the early 2000s to see how each
of these time periods reflected each
other or built off of each other or were
different and I included a picture of
Malala here because for the early 2000s
she discusses how malala's book portrays
her story and then also how her more
recent Western presence has kind of
repackaged her story in terms of Islam
as a limiter to education which brings
up the idea of culture as a cause my
third group is the anthropological view
and a socio-cultural view and I included
this picture in particular because it is
from my own context this is a Tibetan
hair changing ritual that happens when
girls are 13 15 or 17 and it signifies
that they are now marriage' beware of
marriage able age and I think that will
be a valuable in my research just as for
a stand back
discussing the ritual initiation and
circumcision as well as high school
graduation as different ways of becoming
adults I appreciated Stan box work and
also a Delia's for the fact that they
both talked about how gender and
respectability are constructed
throughout daily practices with between
students parents and teachers so I have
chosen to work with this anthropological
perspective to gain a more nuanced
understanding of how adolescent Tibetan
girls understand their educational
trajectory and what it means to be
successful women because I'm not
exactly sure what I will find so I'm not
ready to take on or more narrow
frameworks such as a wood perspective or
even a post structural perspective and I
think this is important to acknowledge
because when we are looking at situation
it's easy to fall into the trap of that
World Bank report with those gender
paradoxes and we may carry some of those
same blind spots in the way we see
things so by taking an anthropological
perspective we can make sure that we're
looking at specific contexts thank you
