Title
Western education's impact on Northern Igbo gender roles in Nsukka, Nigeria
Abstract
This article analyzes gender perspectives at two secondary schools in Nsukka Nigeria. It analyzes gender-role changes or perceptions of change based on students' reported interactions in formal education settings. It summarizes gender issues under students' perceptions of gender roles, norms, and practices in relation to themselves, their peer group, and their perceptions of generational change compared with those of their parents and grandparents. These perceptions demonstrate a pattern of gender roles shaped by Western Judeo-Christian doctrine within the formal education curriculum, minimal inclusion of local history or cultural content, and loss of indigenous knowledge and practices. Gender-role change is one aspect of a general Westernizing effect of formal models of Western education on indigenous cultures.
Department(s)
History
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2979/aft.2007.54.1.28
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Recommended Citation
Abidogun, Jamaine. "Western Education's Impact on Northern Igbo Gender Roles in Nsukka, Nigeria." Africa Today 54, no. 1 (2007): 29-51. Accessed November 3, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27666873.
Journal Title
Africa Today
