Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities

While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world. Discrimination, violence, marginalization, and health-related issues prevail, making proper education at the middle school level crucial during this unique development time. As we continue to see the expectations for girls grow, education for girls must also find a new place within the evolving norms of political, economic, cultural and social life.

This volume takes a global look at the obstacles and enablers in girls’ education that can have lasting institutional, psychological and social consequences. It looks at many complex issues affecting education for adolescent girls around the world, including the underlying global demands for women in the formal workforce and the universal impact of gender-based violence, and provides a critical framework through which researchers may explore and critique these complexities.

Sandra L. Stacki is Associate Professor, Hofstra University, NY, USA. Research on empowering women teachers in India won the Comparative and International Education Society’s Gail Kelly award. Publications include "Moving Gender Boundaries: Rays of Hope for Female Teachers in India," and co-editing "The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment."

Supriya Baily is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University teaching international and comparative education and research methods. Her research interests focus on gender, education and empowerment as well as higher education in India. She is the co-editor of two books and has presented at numerous national and international conferences.