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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. 2. Educating girls in Bangladesh
2.1 Approaches to increase girls’ access to education
2.1.1 The girls’ stipend program
2.1.2 Food-For-Education programs
2.2 Enhancing the Quality of basic Education in Bangladesh
3. Education girls in Mali
3.1 Approaches to increase girls’ access to education 3, 1, 1 The Animatrices Model 3.1.2 The Success of the Animatrice Model
3.2 Enhancing the quality of basic education in Mali
3.2.1 Curriculum reforms
4. Comparison between approaches of Bangladesh and Mali
5. Conclusion
6. Bibliography
2. Educating girls in Bangladesh
Janet Raynor explored the Female Stipend Programme (FSP) whilst working in education over 12 years in Bangladesh. Her study reviewed attitude towards girl’s education and learned girls and women in Bangladesh
The Researcher started her paper by quoting an old Bengali adage ‘caring for a daughter is like watering a neighbour‘s tree’. The author used this to imply that in Bangladesh it is seen to be unprofitable to spend scarce resources in educating a daughter because the main beneficiary is the husband. She explained that this was one of the excuses, families used to justify the exclusion of girls from Education in Bangladesh. Janet Raynor however noted that, various approaches have been used to promote girls access to education.
3.1 Approaches to increase girls’ access to education
The Researcher referred to the ‘Wood’s Education Despatch’ of 1954, the first formal document campaigning for official schooling for girls in Bangladesh. In this paper, the main aim for promoting girls education was that it enhanced lifestyle and moral outlook to life. Janet also explored the work of Chanana who noted that the education of girls focused on successful motherhood (Chanana 1994). The 1974 Qudrat-e- Khuda Education Commission Report of Bangladesh reinforce the
Bibliography: Ahmed, Akhter U. & del Ninno, Carlo, 2002. "The Food For Education program in Bangladesh