| dc.description.abstract | The concepts of girls and women in relation to
issues of education have been met with a lot of
resistance for a long time in history.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1779), believed
that women were created to entertain and take
care of men . His theories were concerned with
promoting the interest of men. To him, women
were dependent, declined to learn, silly and
should be given little opportunity of
independence. (Fiona and Collette 2002)
Chege and Sifuna (2006) a general misplaced
perception that girls have to be socialized to be wives,
homemakers, dependants and secretaries, while boys are
to be husbands, bread winner, defenders and pilots. The gender gap exists is as a result of stereotypes in
both the society and the school. However, Mezirow (1994) - Transformative adult
learning is a process of freeing women from forces
that limit their options and thus perpetuate control over
women’s lives.
Freire (1997)- Education is a double-edged sword which
can be used to reinforce or to question prevailing social
forces that make learners passive and dependent. | en_US |
