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Academic pathfinders : knowledge creation and feminist scholarship / / Patricia J. Gumport



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Autore: Gumport Patricia J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Academic pathfinders : knowledge creation and feminist scholarship / / Patricia J. Gumport Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2002
London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina: 378/.0082
Soggetto topico: Women college teachers
Women college students
Women in higher education
Feminism and education
Learning and scholarship
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-191) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Academic Pathfinders -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- 1 The Dynamic Nature of Academic Knowledge -- THE CENTRALITY OF KNOWLEDGE TO HIGHER EDUCATION -- PRIOR LITERATURE ON ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE -- Historical Understandings of Curricular Change -- Rise of Departmental/Disciplinary Organization -- Factors Involved in the Emergence of New Fields -- Mainstream Fields -- Marginal Fields -- Interdisciplinary Fields -- The Organizational Factors That Constrain or Permit Change -- The Views of Sociologists of Science -- CRITIQUE OF PRIOR CONCEPTUALIZATIONS -- A PROPOSAL FOR AN ALTERNATIVE FRAMEWORK -- Disciplinary Paradigms -- Organizational Paradigms -- The Relevance of External Politics -- 2 Academic Feminism: Antecedents, Initiatives, and Unresolved Issues -- POLITICAL CATALYSTS -- ORGANIZATIONAL INITIATIVES -- Women's Studies Programs -- INTELLECTUAL ADVANCES -- UNRESOLVED ISSUES -- 3 Investigating Knowledge Creation -- THE RATIONALE FOR THE DESIGN -- THE CORE SAMPLE AND THE INTERVIEW DATA -- THE ANALYSIS BY GENERATION -- Each Generation in Context -- 4 The Pathfinders' Breakthroughs -- STARTING POINTS: GOING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL -- Career Options for Women -- Political Interests -- POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS -- FEMINIST AWAKENINGS -- Sources of Feminist Awakenings -- Forming Networks for Change -- INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS -- Generating Feminist Questions -- Extending Political Concerns -- Finding Organizational Opportunities -- Identifying Unexplored Terrain -- 5 Knowledge Creation in the Disciplines: History, Sociology, and Philosophy -- HISTORY -- SOCIOLOGY -- PHILOSOPHY -- DISCIPLINARY DIFFERENCES -- 6 Alternative Academic Pursuits: The Pathtakers and Forerunners -- THE PATHTAKERS -- THE FORERUNNERS -- SUMMARY -- 7 Changing Conditions for Knowledge Creation.
THE CHANGING POLITICAL CONDITIONS -- THE CHANGING CONDITIONS IN UNIVERSITIES -- THE ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE -- Appendix: Notes on the Research Design and Methods -- INTERVIEWS WITH THE CORE SAMPLE -- Interview Guide for Primary Informants -- Section 1: Career History -- Section 2: Intellectual Biography -- Section 3: Reflections on Feminist Perspectives in Academia -- DATA ANALYSIS PROCEDURES -- METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND LIMITATIONS -- Linking the Framework with Data -- Utility of Interpretive Analysis -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Titolo autorizzato: Academic pathfinders  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-84-00-60640-3
1-280-46870-X
9786610468706
0-313-01104-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808633103321
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Serie: Greenwood studies in higher education.