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URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/womens-empowerment-a-question-of-educati
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SUMMARY:Women’s empowerment: a question of education?
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 18 March 11:00-12:30\nREGISTER HERE\nUniversity of Suss
 ex Campus : Global Studies Resource Centre\, Arts C / Zoom Webinar\nSpeake
 r: Professor Anna Robinson Pant\, University of East Anglia and University
  of Sussex\nPart of the series: CIE Research Café\n"Education – particu
 larly literacy - has long been seen as the key to women’s empowerment. T
 his seminar sets out to explore ideas on how to research and understand ed
 ucation\, development and social change. Over four decades working in this
  field\, I have continued to reflect on why literacy is so often presented
  by policy makers as a ‘magic bullet’ for women struggling to survive.
  Drawing on my experiences as an ethnographic researcher and development w
 orker in Nepal\, I will reflect on some of the ways in which women’s liv
 es there have changed since the 1980s and question where education comes i
 nto this picture. Through foregrounding social change rather than planned 
 development - and learning rather than schooling – I hope to offer an al
 ternative perspective on women’s empowerment and social change."\nAnna R
 obinson-Pant is Emeritus Professor in the School of Global Studies\, Univ
 ersity of Sussex and at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning\, Un
 iversity of East Anglia\, where she holds the UNESCO Chair for Adult Liter
 acy and Learning for Social Transformation. The Chair is a collaborative r
 esearch\, training and policy-focused partnership with universities in Nep
 al\, Ethiopia\, the Philippines\, Malawi and Egypt. She began her career i
 n Nepal as a teacher educator and development planner\, then joined CIE as
  a DPhil student. Her current research interests include adult literacy\, 
 gender and sustainable development and the geopolitics of academic writing
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