Gender and lifelong learning [[electronic resource] ] : critical feminist engagements / / edited by Carole Leathwood and Becky Francis

• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 374.0082
• Soggetto topico: Sex differences in education - Great Britain; Adult education - Great Britain; Feminism and education
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LeathwoodCarole FrancisBecky
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Gendering lifelong learning; 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; 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 II: Accessing lifelong learning ; Chapter 4: Troubling trajectories: Gendered 'choices' and pathways fromschool to workChapter 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 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 educationChapter 11: Older women as lifelong learners; Chapter 12: War and diaspora as lifelong learning contexts for immigrant women; Chapter 13: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions addressed include:To what extent can the policy discourses and institutional contexts of lifelong learning be seen as masculinised and/or feminised?What are the gender implicati
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and lifelong learning
• ISBN: 1-134-18862-5; 1-280-62215-6; 9786610622153; 0-203-96953-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348233403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II