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Vilma Seeberg

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In Their Own Words_What Do Chinese Village Girls Value And Gain From Schooling- 96-311-1-Pb.Pdf, Vilma Seeberg, Shujuan Luo Dec 2015

In Their Own Words_What Do Chinese Village Girls Value And Gain From Schooling- 96-311-1-Pb.Pdf, Vilma Seeberg, Shujuan Luo

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In remote valleys and plateaus of western China, village girls have been pushing their way into schools. Despite extreme family poverty, the vulnerabilities and low status of being a girl, the isolation of their villages, as well as the deplorable conditions of their schooling, girls persist in seeking an education. We examine forces of change where minimal human rights, minimal social justice,and multiple deprivations of freedomwere the norm. We brought to light village girls’ capabilities and their potential for gaining individual and collective social justice. Their schooling provided all the village girls with identity, legitimacy, visibility and respect …

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Girls’ Schooling Empowerment In Rural China: Identifying Capabilities And Social Change In The Village, Vilma Seeberg Oct 2014

Girls’ Schooling Empowerment In Rural China: Identifying Capabilities And Social Change In The Village, Vilma Seeberg

Vilma Seeberg

This study is explicitly anchored in an emerging grounded paradigm, the human development capability approach, and proposes its elaboration using empowerment as a perspective, in this case, on the education of excluded village girls. The person-centered development imperative of the empowerment-capability approach provided the conceptual tools that brought together a holistic observation of social location, subjectivities, agency, achievements and transformative change. Seeking to explain village girls' demand for schooling, the work identifies intangible and instrumental capabilities often unrecognized and "their indirect role through influencing social change" (Sen 1999, 296) contributing grounded findings on the concept of empowerment. Findings further show …

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