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Ghanaian Muslim Women Activists in the Transformation of Islamic Education in Ghana Since the 1970s
Ghanaian Muslim Women Activists in the Transformation of Islamic Education in Ghana Since the 1970s
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105634
- ISBN
- 9798297981324
- DDC
- 960
- 서명/저자
- Ghanaian Muslim Women Activists in the Transformation of Islamic Education in Ghana Since the 1970s
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The Ohio State University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 200 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Kobo, Ousman.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The end of the Cold War in 1989, the onward democratization of Ghana in the 1990s, and increasing local and international conferences on women and development, facilitated the Ghanaian Muslim women's efforts toward addressing the numerous challenges that affected their lives. Although marginalized under patriarchal establishments, Ghanaian Muslim women activists, motivated by both religious and secular knowledge, adopted various strategies to address pitfalls in Muslim girls? education. This dissertation analyzes and documents their historical contributions to shaping the positive outcome of Muslim girls? acquisition of a combination of secular and religious education. I argue that their efforts in aggressively pushing for educational reform since the late 1980s, their interest in establishing and running their own schools to overcome the constraints of government bureaucracy, and their relentless campaign aimed at encouraging parents to enroll their girls in schools, culminated in an unprecedented high enrollment and retention of Muslim girls in schools, especially in the integrated schools that combined Islamic and secular curriculum. By the late1990s, the integrated schools have become the seedbeds for nurturing future generations of Muslim female intellectuals.Although the study of the transformation of Muslim schooling has remained an engaging topic for Africanist scholars since the late 1970s, the extant literature focused mainly on the role of men, conspicuously overlooking the profound contributions of women. Dwelling on oral evidence collected through extensive interviews, the dissertation aimed at recovering Muslim women's voices and efforts that have remained unexplored in studies of the transformation of Islamic education in Ghana specifically, but the West African subregion more broadly. I demonstrate further that, in addition to evidence collected through interviews and archival sources, additional evidence related to their pivotal contributions to the development of Muslim educational infrastructures can be gleaned from statistics that indicate sustained growth of Muslim girls? enrollments and retentions at all levels of education since the early 1980s. Thus, although Muslim women activists continued to face gender-related challenges even in the 1990s, they nonetheless remained resilient in their objectives of ensuring that Muslim girls were enrolled in school, and they stayed in school. The dissertation, therefore, contributes to the growing literature on Islamic education in Ghana as well as women's history, to enrich our understanding of the intellectual history of West African Muslims.
- 일반주제명
- African history
- 일반주제명
- Islamic studies
- 일반주제명
- Religion
- 일반주제명
- Religious education
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies
- 키워드
- Muslim women
- 키워드
- Contributions
- 키워드
- Enrolment
- 키워드
- Retention
- 기타저자
- The Ohio State University History
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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■520 ▼aThe end of the Cold War in 1989, the onward democratization of Ghana in the 1990s, and increasing local and international conferences on women and development, facilitated the Ghanaian Muslim women's efforts toward addressing the numerous challenges that affected their lives. Although marginalized under patriarchal establishments, Ghanaian Muslim women activists, motivated by both religious and secular knowledge, adopted various strategies to address pitfalls in Muslim girls? education. This dissertation analyzes and documents their historical contributions to shaping the positive outcome of Muslim girls? acquisition of a combination of secular and religious education. I argue that their efforts in aggressively pushing for educational reform since the late 1980s, their interest in establishing and running their own schools to overcome the constraints of government bureaucracy, and their relentless campaign aimed at encouraging parents to enroll their girls in schools, culminated in an unprecedented high enrollment and retention of Muslim girls in schools, especially in the integrated schools that combined Islamic and secular curriculum. By the late1990s, the integrated schools have become the seedbeds for nurturing future generations of Muslim female intellectuals.Although the study of the transformation of Muslim schooling has remained an engaging topic for Africanist scholars since the late 1970s, the extant literature focused mainly on the role of men, conspicuously overlooking the profound contributions of women. Dwelling on oral evidence collected through extensive interviews, the dissertation aimed at recovering Muslim women's voices and efforts that have remained unexplored in studies of the transformation of Islamic education in Ghana specifically, but the West African subregion more broadly. I demonstrate further that, in addition to evidence collected through interviews and archival sources, additional evidence related to their pivotal contributions to the development of Muslim educational infrastructures can be gleaned from statistics that indicate sustained growth of Muslim girls? enrollments and retentions at all levels of education since the early 1980s. Thus, although Muslim women activists continued to face gender-related challenges even in the 1990s, they nonetheless remained resilient in their objectives of ensuring that Muslim girls were enrolled in school, and they stayed in school. The dissertation, therefore, contributes to the growing literature on Islamic education in Ghana as well as women's history, to enrich our understanding of the intellectual history of West African Muslims.
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■650 4▼aReligion
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■653 ▼aEnrolment
■653 ▼aRetention
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