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Gender and lifelong learning : critical feminist engagements / edited by Carole Leathwood and Becky Francis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex differences in education--Great Britain.
- Sex differences in education.
- Adult education--Great Britain.
- Adult education.
- Feminism and education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Taylor & Francis 2006
- London : Routledge, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Useful for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning, this book offers a view from a gender-focused perspective. It questions if lifelong learning provides opportunities to challenge or transgress gender binaries, what the implications for practice are, and more.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed December 22, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9786610622153
- 9781134188628
- 1134188625
- 9781280622151
- 1280622156
- 9780203969533
- 0203969537
- OCLC:
- 437220557
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203969533
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