1 Public Service Board, Turkana Kenya.
2 University of Eldoret, Kenya.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 24(03), 1947-1953
Received on 02 November 2024; revised on 16 December 2024; accepted on 18 December 2024
Culture is instrumental in any given society for its own good. However, culture can also be detrimental to gender equality especially as regards education of the girl-child today through stereotyping of the girl-child. Over the years, education policy has focused on access and equality; but the enrollment gap between girls and boys are not being closed. The purpose of this study was to give an understanding of how cultural stereo-typing among pastoral communities has been an impediment in the realization of equity in Basic Education in Kenya. The study using the Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Qualitative approach established that cultural stereotyping of the girl child contributes to gender inequality in education among the Turkana community. The study recommends a cultural change in communities and households in respond to social and economic changes and development experienced in education in the country in the last two decades.
Gender Equality; Cultural Change; Basic Education; Stereotyping; Child Early Pregnancy; Child Early Marriage
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Pauline Akiru Ekod and Nicholas Kipng’etich Sambu. Stereotyping of the girl learner within the context of gender equality in education: A cultural perspective. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 24(3), 1947-1953. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2024.24.3.3773