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• Educational research from Tanzania 1998–2008 concerning persons with disabilities: What can we learn? 

  Lehtomäki, Elina; Tuomi, Margaret; Matonya, Magreth (Pergamon Press, 2014)

  The global Education For All process and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have increased the attention given to marginalised and excluded groups showing the need to enhance the education of ...

• The significance of student voice: female students’ interpretations of failure in Tanzanian secondary education 

  Posti-Ahokas, Hanna; Lehtomäki, Elina (Routledge, 2014)

  Abstract: In Tanzania, the national examinations are used as the primary tools for selection and transition from lower to upper secondary education. Female students are more likely to fail in the national exams and to drop ...

• Accessibility and participation in Tanzanian higher education from the perspectives of women with disabilities 

  Matonya, Magreth (University of Jyväskylä, 2016)

  This study investigated how women with disabilities participate in higher education and what enables them to succeed in their studies. The Social Model of Disability (SMD) guided the study because it emphasises the ...

• Transactional Sex, Early Marriage, and Parent-Child Relations in a Tanzanian Slum 

  Stark, Laura (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2016)

  Transactional sex has been recognized as a major factor in the persistence of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet it also has implications for the persistence of poverty. Using interview data collected between 2010 and ...

• As Capable as Other Students: Tanzanian Women with Disabilities in Higher Education 

  Tuomi, Margaret; Lehtomäki, Elina; Matonya, Magreth (Routledge; Fred and Eleanor Schonell Educational Research Centre, 2015)

  Globally, persons with disabilities are underrepresented in higher education. In sub-Saharan Africa, where opportunities for higher education are especially limited, women are unlikely to continue their education. This ...