Women and distance education : challenges and opportunities / Christine von Prummer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prümmer, Christine von, 1946-

Series:

Routledge studies in distance education.

Routledge studies in distance education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fernuniversität-Gesamthochschule-Hagen.

Women--Education (Higher)--Germany--Case studies.

Women.

Distance education--Germany--Case studies.

Distance education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides valuable insights into the situation of women in distance education around the world. A wide variety of evidence from different countries supports the conclusion that open and distance learning has the potential to provide equal opportunities in higher and continuing education and that these are currently being missed. The author provides conclusive evidence that distance education, while involving a degree of risk to the stability of families and relationships, etc., nevertheless offers women a chance which, on balance, is worth taking. The author says that it is up to dist

Contents:

Women and Distance EducationChallenges and opportunities; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; List of abbreviations; Glossary of German terms; Chapter 1Introduction; Issues and focus: gender and distance education; The FernUniversität as case study and illustration; Women students and staff; System evaluation: taking the measure of distance education; Comments on the book and brief guide to chapters; Chapter 2Distance education: studying outside the ivory tower; Overcoming geographical distances; Distance education and equal opportunities

Overcoming social distance: recruiting working-class studentsOvercoming the gender gap in educational opportunities; Removing the blinkers: overcoming androcentrism in distance education; Chapter 3Home study: the learning environments of women distance students; The work situations of distance students; Working from home: 'A woman's work is never done'; Studying at home: keeping women in their place?; Emancipation through distance education: observations from a pilot project; Home study: the pitfalls and potential of making education a private concern

Chapter 4Women studying at a distance: learning styles and local support servicesLearning styles of distance students: theoretical and empirical context; Gender and study centre attendance; The use and relevance of study centre services; Implications; Chapter 5Getting in touch: communication and the new technologies; Communication in distance education; Experience with technically-mediated communication; Virtual equality: the place of women in the electronic campus; Chapter 6Minority women: class and gender in distance education; Class and gender issues in European distance education

Family of originData on working-class women at the FernUniversität; Personal data; Comments on the class and gender of FernUniversität students; Chapter 7Distance education and the social mobility of women; Mobility patterns of working-class women; Major subject choice and its role in women's social mobility; The study goals of women distance students; Conclusion: working-class women using the opportunities in distance education; Chapter 8Challenges, chances, changes: distance education for women; Challenges; Chances; Changes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-215) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-57194-1

1-280-11171-2

0-203-99229-6

9780203992296

OCLC:

475960990