Education Barriers Of Poor Countries - 1971 Words

Natasha Juvera Professor Martineau English 122 3 April 2016 Education Barriers in Poor Countries According to a new UNESCO policy paper 58 million children aged 6 to 11 are not receiving any education. Over 40% of these children will never enter a classroom (Unesco.org). In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said, â€Å"almost half of school-age children do not have access to education. Some because of war or their schools have closed by the Taliban or others, or they do not have the ability to go to school† (Rawa.org). Pakistan has the world’s poorest education systems with 3 million children out of school (en.unesco.org). Girls in poor countries face barriers such as cost of education, violence, poverty, gender norms, and early pregnancy;†¦show more content†¦Cost of education makes it hard for them because they do not have the money for textbooks or bus fares. Many classrooms in Pakistan do not have textbooks, even though books are considered the most important instructional material for the student’s. Childr en score higher in tests of math and reading comprehension when they are provided textbooks. Other issues are the quality of the books are flawed with factual errors, inappropriate illustrations, and problems with readability, due to factual and grammatical errors, along with major deviations from the specifications set by the Curriculum Bureau. The language of the text creates confusion because it differs greatly from one grade to another and even subject to subject among books at the same level (YesPakistan.com, 2002). Throughout Pakistani society, education of girls is prohibited. Sending girls to school is against family honor. Education is viewed as un-Islamic by the Pakistani Taliban. The terrorist frown upon co-education, and in retaliation destroy the schools and the children. More than 800 schools in the region have been attacked since 2009, according to government education authorities (Siddiqui). Co-education remains to be an issue in Pakistan, despite the positive sides to it such as, enabling women and man to understand each other while having positive interactions (Ahmad). Since the attack of the Taliban on a Peshawar public school where a