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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964104103321

Autore

Okeke-Ihejirika Philomina E (Philomina Ezeagbor)

Titolo

Negotiating power and privilege : Igbo career women in contemporary Nigeria / / Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens [Ohio], : Center for International Studies, Ohio University, c2004

ISBN

0-89680-438-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Ohio University research in international studies. Africa series ; ; no. 82

Disciplina

305.48/8963320669

Soggetti

Women, Igbo - Social conditions

Women, Igbo - Economic conditions

Women, Igbo - Employment

Women employees - Nigeria

Working mothers - Nigeria

Sex role - Government policy - Nigeria

Women - Government policy - Nigeria

Sexual division of labor - Nigeria

Nigeria Social conditions

Nigeria Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Placing Igbo women within an African context -- Gender relations in family and society -- From housewives to career women -- Your life is not entirely your business -- Gendered lives, gendered aspirations -- Making it in paid employment -- Balancing act -- Ours is ours but my own is my own -- Looking to the future.

Sommario/riassunto

Even with a university education, the Igbo women of southeastern Nigeria face obstacles that prevent them from reaching their professional and personal potentials. "Negotiating Power and Privilege" is a study of their life choices and the embedded patriarchy and other obstacles in postcolonial Africa barring them from fulfillment. Philomina E. Okeke recorded life-history interviews and discussions during the 1990s with educated women of differing ages and professions. Her interviews expose both familiar and surprising aspects



of the women's experience their victories and compromise within their families, marriages, and workplaces. Okeke explores the many factors that have shaped women's access to sponsorship and promotion in their quest to join men as partners in nation building. "Negotiating Power and Privilege" captures the voices of African female professionals and vividly portrays the women's continuous negotiation as wives, mothers, single women, and workers. It shows the inherent limitations of contemporary policies in developing nations that often prescribe secondary and advanced education for women as a panacea for every social ill. It is also an original and important contribution to African studies, gender studies, development studies, education policy, and sociology. This engagingly written book will appeal to a wide audience, ranging from undergraduate students to scholars and professionals."

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965867803321

Autore

Dean Geoff

Titolo

Improving learning in secondary English / / Geoff Dean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : David Fulton, , 2004

ISBN

1-136-60293-3

0-203-06391-0

1-283-96785-5

1-136-60286-0

1-4175-8200-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Collana

Informing teaching

Disciplina

428/.0071241

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

Second language acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Improving Learning in Secondary English; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1 Some of the problems of learning in English; 2 Why has learning in English become so important?; 3 Planning for learning in English; 4 Improving learning in reading; 5 Improving



learning in writing; 6 Improving learning in speaking and listening; 7 End words; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on how teachers can improve the ways in which they plan their lessons, this book demonstrates how careful planning allows the further development of learning approaches. The author presents a clear understanding of how these approaches can be used by the teacher to assess themselves and their students' learning through: careful consideration of how certain approaches to learning can improve a student's grasp of reading, writing, speaking and listeningdiscussions on how theories and research from leading experts can be applied in the classroom</L