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Girls Not Brides: Concern of Distance Learning: Strategies to Prevent Child Marriage and Curse of Dowry: Bangladesh Perspective
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Abstract
Women’s access to education must be treated as their fundamental right. And it is only through education that
they wo
uld get the chance to prepare themselves in order to play their roles in nation’s social, economic and
political spheres as equal members of society. In Bangladesh, very few women can enjoy such rights and live a
healthy and prestigious life. At present du
e to government initiatives, girl’s enrolment in primary and secondary
education is little bit higher than the boys. Despite of such encouraging scenario, there is a dark side behind this.
Due to prejudice, mistaken education from family and society, lack
of security, dropout rate of girls is higher and
their retention rate is low. Marriage is considered as the alternative to education, which ultimately leads to violence
against women due to unpaid dowry.
Bangladesh has the second
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highest rate of child marr
iage in the world,
behind Niger, and the highest rate of marriage of girls under age 15, according to a 2014 report by UNICEF.
As a
teaching and learning delivery model there is no option of distance education to meet up the challenges of
inclusion girls wi
th technological strength. The Open and Distance Learning system with its inherent nature of
flexibilities has the potential to reach the unreached. It can provide an appropriate methodology to meet up the
skilling needs of the unreached community through
its academic, vocational, technical, professional, extension
and lifelong learning programs.
The article analyze the issues of child marriage, which gives the indication of the
real causes of child marriage.
The paper examines various strategies to minimi
ze child marriage within a distance
learning framework, underscoring the crucial role of diversity in culture and socio
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economic status // Paper ID 34
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Bangaladesh
Region
Asia
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2019-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)