GSSWSR Student Wins Fulbright to Research Women’s Education in Ghana | Bryn Mawr Now
How does adult education benefit women in Ghana, their families, and their communities? Kyra Turner-Zogbekor, a Ph.D. candidate in social work and social research, will use a Fulbright Research Grant to investigate that question next year in Accra, Ghana.
Turner-Zogbekor will collaborate with the University of Ghana’s Center for Gender Studies and Advocacy and its Institute of Continuing and Distance Education.
“As in all of West Africa, there are educational disparities based on gender in Ghana, especially in middle and secondary schooling,” Turner-Zogbekor says, “But the adult education program I’ll be studying is aimed directly at rectifying those disparities by educating adult women whose schooling was interrupted when they were young.”
* Did I mention that her parents, John and Diane Turner are quite proud of her...
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