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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788093603321

Autore

Maslak Mary Ann <1960-, >

Titolo

Vocational education of female entrepreneurs in China : a multitheoretical and multidimensional analysis of successful businesswomen's everyday lives / / Mary Ann Maslak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-80327-2

1-138-58017-1

1-315-81403-X

1-317-80328-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Collana

Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Disciplina

370.1130951

Soggetti

Vocational education - China

Businesswomen - China

Entrepreneurship - China

Success in business - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Background of Education for Adults; 1 Working Women: The Dongxiang Entrepreneurs; 2 Framing the Field: An Interdisciplinary, Multitheoretical Framework for Women's Entrepreneurship; 3 The Institution of Ethnicity and the Language of Identity for the Entrepreneurs; 4 Participating in Public and Private Networks: The Institutional Structure of Islam; 5 Listening to Women: Voices of Informal Education in Entrepreneurship

6 Honoring Rhetoric and Staging Practice: Policies of Yesterday and a Model for Today7 Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to mature and possibly illiterate women's successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings. Calling on varied yet pertinent social theories, and the exceptional introduction to and study of profitable businesses operated by Dongxiang Muslim women in the southern Gansu province of north-



western China, the author explains the multifaceted formula for women's challenges and successes in their business endeavours and goal for financial security, and argues that informal learning is