This paper provides an in-depth review and analysis of literature on dropping out from
school, and focuses on children who have gained access, but fail to complete a basic …

Abstract Introduction Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in
the world. While pregnancy during adolescence poses higher risks for the mother and the …

Author Bagele Chilisa has revised and updated her groundbreaking textbook to give a new
generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and …

The main argument in this article is that methodologies rooted in African philosophies,
worldviews, and history, bring to the academic discourse, alternative ways of conducting …

In this paper we explore tensions between Western gender theory and research, and post-
colonial and indigenous feminist standpoints, which challenge us to redefine our roles as …

This paper explores gender violence in schools in what is commonly known as the
'developing world'through a review of recent research written in English. Violence in the …

Sex education is rarely out of the news. Despite this, there exist surprisingly few studies of
the principles, policies and practice of sex education. This book provides such an …

This article is based on an ESRC/DFID funded research project on Widening Participation in
Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania: Developing an Equity Scorecard (http://www …

This work has made a significant contribution to the field of international education in both
methodological and theoretical terms. It incorporates 12 ethnographic case studies carried …

This monograph reviews key findings in the international research literature from 1995 to the
present on five dimensions of the gender socialization process in schools:(1) Teacher-based …