Pregnant and abandoned: qualitative assessment of COVID-19 pandemic educational challenges faced by pregnant college students in Uganda

IF 2 3区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Gender and Education Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI:10.1080/09540253.2023.2256765

Viola Nilah Nyakato, Elizabeth Kemigisha, Faith Mugabi, Shakillah Namatovu, Kristien Michielsen, Susan Kools

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Early marriage and pregnancy hinder global commitment to attain gender parity in education. This article discusses educational challenges experienced by parenting college students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. The study qualitatively assessed the effects of COVID-19 on the National Teacher Colleges’ learning environment. On the reopening of schools after the lockdown, colleges were overwhelmed with an increased number of students who returned either pregnant or with young babies. Colleges were not prepared since pregnancy in college is prohibited through denial of on-campus accommodation and other services. Pregnant students were stigmatized, shunned and blamed for having engaged in immoral sexual behaviour and punished for their indiscretions. Pregnant and abandoned is structural gender-based violence that manifests in the physical, emotional, economic and social violence faced by pregnancy and parenting students, the young mothers are abandoned by their families and partners, and are denied child support and other student services. Future studies need to investigate the effects of such tormenting experiences of being abandoned on the academic performance and future parenting decisions of such girls.

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怀孕和被遗弃:乌干达怀孕大学生面临的COVID-19大流行教育挑战的定性评估

早婚和早孕阻碍了在教育方面实现性别平等的全球承诺。本文讨论了在乌干达COVID-19大流行期间，为人父母的大学生所面临的教育挑战。本研究定性评估了新冠肺炎疫情对全国师范院校学习环境的影响。在封锁结束后重新开学的日子里，怀孕或带着婴儿返校的学生越来越多，大学里人满为患。由于拒绝提供校内住宿和其他服务，禁止在大学怀孕，因此大学没有做好准备。怀孕的学生因从事不道德的性行为而被污名化、回避和指责，并因其轻率行为而受到惩罚。怀孕和被遗弃是结构性的基于性别的暴力，表现在怀孕和养育子女的学生面临的身体、情感、经济和社会暴力，年轻母亲被其家庭和伴侣抛弃，并被剥夺子女抚养费和其他学生服务。未来的研究需要调查这种被遗弃的痛苦经历对这些女孩的学习成绩和未来养育决定的影响。

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期刊介绍： Gender and Education grew out of feminist politics and a social justice agenda and is committed to developing multi-disciplinary and critical discussions of gender and education. The journal is particularly interested in the place of gender in relation to other key differences and seeks to further feminist knowledge, philosophies, theory, action and debate. The Editors are actively committed to making the journal an interactive platform that includes global perspectives on education, gender and culture. Submissions to the journal should examine and theorize the interrelated experiences of gendered subjects including women, girls, men, boys, and gender-diverse individuals. Papers should consider how gender shapes and is shaped by other social, cultural, discursive, affective and material dimensions of difference. Gender and Education expects articles to engage in feminist debate, to draw upon a range of theoretical frameworks and to go beyond simple descriptions. Education is interpreted in a broad sense to cover both formal and informal aspects, including pre-school, primary, and secondary education; families and youth cultures inside and outside schools; adult, community, further and higher education; vocational education and training; media education; and parental education.