Gender and lifelong learning : critical feminist engagements / Carole Leathwood and Becky Francis Routledge.

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Main Author: Leathwood, Carole. (Author)
Other Authors: Francis, Becky.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • chapter Introduction: Gendering lifelong learning / CAROLE LEATHWOOD
  • part PART I The policy context
  • chapter 1 Unprotected participation in lifelong learning and the politics of hope: a feminist reality check of discourses around exibility, seamlessness and learner earners / JILL BLACKMORE
  • chapter 2 Locating the learner within EU policy: Trajectories, complexities, identities / JACKY BRINE
  • chapter 3 Gendered constructions of lifelong learning and the learner in the UK policy context / CAROLE LEATHWOOD
  • part PART II Accessing lifelong learning
  • chapter 4 Troubling trajectories: gendered choices and pathways from school to work / BECKY FRANCIS
  • chapter 5 Masculinities, femininities and resistance to participation in post-compulsory education / LOUISE ARCHER
  • chapter 6 Fair access? Exploring gender, access and participation beyond entry to higher education / PENNY JANE BURKE
  • part PART III Experiences of lifelong learning
  • chapter 7 Community education: Participation, risk and desire / LYN TETT
  • chapter 8 From childcare practitioner to FE Tutor: Biography, identity and lifelong learning / HELEN COLLEY
  • chapter 9 Disability, gender and identity: The experiences of disabled students in higher education / SHEILA RIDDELL
  • chapter 10 The in/visible journey: Black women's lifelong lessons in higher education / HEIDI SAFIA MIRZA
  • chapter 11 Older women as lifelong learners / BARBARA KAMLER
  • chapter 12 War and diaspora as lifelong learning contexts for immigrant women / SHAHRZAD MOJAB
  • chapter 13 Conclusion / BECKY FRANCIS.