The Influences of Empowerment Education on Female Students

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Pedagogy - Higher Education, grade: 4.00 (very good), , course: Educational Leadership and Policy, language: English, abstract: This thesis is centered on few extraordinary female student¿s perceptions based on their academic and personal experience on a woman university which is located in Bangladesh. Historically, in terms of schooling and quality education, women are somehow deprived and lacks behind men everywhere around the world especially in Asian and Muslim countries. In this thesis, the stories of three students from a woman university will be portrayed with the purpose of finding out how empowering teaching method and influencing diverse environment can transform female students into a powerful individual and responsive to the community.

Through this paper, the concept of empowerment and its application on female students will be analyzed from various aspects. In the literature review, various barriers in terms of patriarchal ideologies, social construction on gender, gender inequalities in education, the overall picture of woman education focusing on Asian and Muslim countries will be enlightened. In the second chapter, through empowerment and feminist theory, the story of three female students will be characterized following methodologies used to find out the experience. These students experience based on the woman university will be embodied through case studies and the outcomes will be revealed based on themes and sub-themes. Discussion on finding will constantly relate back to the literature review and theories with a possible result of empowerment education creating effective and responsive female students for community development.