Gender and lifelong learning : critical feminist engagements /

Leathwood, Carole.,

Gender and lifelong learning : critical feminist engagements / Carole Leathwood and Becky Francis Routledge. - 1 online resource (xii, 214 pages)

chapter Introduction: Gendering lifelong learning / part PART I The policy context -- chapter 1 Unprotected participation in lifelong learning and the politics of hope: a feminist reality check of discourses around exibility, seamlessness and learner earners / chapter 2 Locating the learner within EU policy: Trajectories, complexities, identities / chapter 3 Gendered constructions of lifelong learning and the learner in the UK policy context / part PART II Accessing lifelong learning -- chapter 4 Troubling trajectories: gendered choices and pathways from school to work / chapter 5 Masculinities, femininities and resistance to participation in post-compulsory education / chapter 6 Fair access? Exploring gender, access and participation beyond entry to higher education / part PART III Experiences of lifelong learning -- chapter 7 Community education: Participation, risk and desire / chapter 8 From childcare practitioner to FE Tutor: Biography, identity and lifelong learning / chapter 9 Disability, gender and identity: The experiences of disabled students in higher education / chapter 10 The in/visible journey: Black women's lifelong lessons in higher education / chapter 11 Older women as lifelong learners / chapter 12 War and diaspora as lifelong learning contexts for immigrant women / chapter 13 Conclusion / CAROLE LEATHWOOD -- JILL BLACKMORE -- JACKY BRINE -- CAROLE LEATHWOOD -- BECKY FRANCIS -- LOUISE ARCHER -- PENNY JANE BURKE -- LYN TETT -- HELEN COLLEY -- SHEILA RIDDELL -- HEIDI SAFIA MIRZA -- BARBARA KAMLER -- SHAHRZAD MOJAB -- BECKY FRANCIS.

9780203969533 9781134188574 9781134188611 9781134188628

10.4324/9780203969533 doi


Sex differences in education--Great Britain.
Adult education--Great Britain.
Feminism and education.

LC212.93.G7 / L43 2006

374.0082 / L438