ABSTRACT
The women in these interviews recognised multiple purposes of education; that is, no individual privileged a particular purpose to the exclusion of others. Further, despite the fact of bringing different perspectives on education to the interviews, there were some common themes across the feedback. Whether education imparts certain skills, such as public speaking, or material outcomes, such as qualifi cations, of importance are issues of self-authorship, choice and social responsibility in an individual’s life. Education is seen as pivotal in increasing conditions for the exercise of agency, in which both individual and community benefi ts might be achieved. The third theoretical concept from Chapter 3 – Foucault’s ‘care of the self ’ frames discussion in the next chapter.
