Gender and lifelong learning : critical feminist engagements / edited by Carole Leathwood and Becky Francis.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 0203969537
- 9780203969533
- 1134188617
- 9781134188611
- 374.0082 22
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-206) and index.
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Addresses central questions of gender through several issues surrounding lifelong learning, focusing in on policy and its effects on institutions and individuals.
Chapter Introduction: Gendering lifelong learning / CAROLE LEATHWOOD -- 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 flexibility, seamlessness and learner earners / JILL BLACKMORE -- chapter 2 Locating the learner within EU policy: Trajectories, complexities, identities / JACKY BRINE -- chapter 3 Gendered constructions of lifelong learning and the learner in the UK policy context / CAROLE LEATHWOOD -- part PART II Accessing lifelong learning -- chapter 4 Troubling trajectories: gendered 'choices' and pathways from school to work / BECKY FRANCIS -- chapter 5 Masculinities, femininities and resistance to participation in post-compulsory education / LOUISE ARCHER -- chapter 6 Fair access? Exploring gender, access and participation beyond entry to higher education / PENNY JANE BURKE -- part PART III Experiences of lifelong learning -- chapter 7 Community education: Participation, risk and desire / LYN TETT -- chapter 8 From childcare practitioner to FE Tutor: Biography, identity and lifelong learning / HELEN COLLEY -- chapter 9 Disability, gender and identity: The experiences of disabled students in higher education / SHEILA RIDDELL -- chapter 10 The in/visible journey: Black women's lifelong lessons in higher education / HEIDI SAFIA MIRZA -- chapter 11 Older women as lifelong learners / BARBARA KAMLER -- chapter 12 War and diaspora as lifelong learning contexts for immigrant women / SHAHRZAD MOJAB -- chapter 13 Conclusion / BECKY FRANCIS.
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