GENDER APPROACH TO RETHINK THE EDUCATION AND THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: MOZAMBICAN EDUCATION STUDY

Abstract

This paper is based on different researches carried out in a development cooperation projects in Mozambique and in a PhD. Such projects have the same goal which is: to get to know the Mozambican education with a particular gender approach, that can be define as equality and social justice. These researches have as a result the knowledge about different educational needs, where we can highlight the gender inequality in the education. The main goal of this paper is to re-think the education and the development with a gender and postcolonial approach. Related with this goal, the main research ideas are: a) to build a postcolonial and African gender approach; b) to include this approach in the education and development practices; c) to make the women's empowerment as an educational strategy for social change. The study methodology can be defined as social, critic and qualitative research. This research, also, is defined as a feminist ethnography for social action, where the voices of the girls and women have an important role. In this research we have done some interviews with teachers and women activists of the civil society.At the end we have interrelated this process with the gender approach. To make this approach is so important the documentary and bibliography study.Finally, the research results can make a feminist and transformative pedagogy that would include the postcolonial knowledge. Here, education is thinking as an important feminist resource to fight against the patriarchal standards, where the teacher training is revealed as an important strategy for the equality.