Carol Leathwood (ed.)

Gender and Lifelong Learning

Critical Feminist Engagements
Herausgegeben:Leathwood, Carole; Francis, Becky

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 implications of lifelong learning policy?In what ways are learners' identities constructed through lifelong learning?Does lifelong learning provide opportunities to challenge or transgress gender binaries?What are the implications for practice?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780415374859
• ISBN-10: 0415374855
• Artikelnr.: 22593776

Autorenporträt

Carole Leathwood is Reader in Education at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, UK. Becky Francis is Professor of Education at Roehampton University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gendering Lifelong Learning Section 1: The Policy Context 1.
Unprotected Participation in Life Long Learning and the Politics of Hope: A
Feminist Reality Check of Discourses Around Flexibility, Seamlessness and
Learner Earners 2. Locating the Learner within EU Policy: Trajectories,
Complexities, Identities 3. Gendered Constructions of Lifelong Learning and
the Learner in the UK Policy Context Section 2: Accessing Lifelong Learning
4. Troubling Trajectories: Gendered 'Choices' and Pathways from School to
Work 5. Masculinities, Femininities and Resistance to Participation in
Post-Compulsory Education 6. Fair Access? Exploring Gender, Access and
Participation beyond Entry to Higher Education Section 3: Experiences of
Lifelong Learning 7. Community Education: Participation, Risk and Desire
8. From Childcare Practitioner to FE Tutor: Biography, Identity and
Lifelong Learning 9. Disability, Gender and Identity: The Experiences of
Disabled Students in Higher Education 10. The In/Visible Journey: Black
Women's Life-Long Lessons in Higher Education 11. Older Women as Lifelong
Learners 12. War and Diaspora as Lifelong Learning Contexts for Immigrant
Women

Rezensionen

'With this book, the criticism is complete and perfect, the arguments very well built and attractive and the situations and examples are so real.' - Studies in the Education of Adults