Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education [electronic resource] /
Cotterill, Pamela.editor.
Jackson, Sue.editor.
Letherby, Gayle.editor.
There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Although today many more women follow academic careers than in the past, they do not find the welcome that they had hoped for and expected. Additionally, women students find that whilst they can now enter through the doors of universities, academic space remains embedded in structures and cultures of gender and social class. This book is a clear and accessible exploration of lifelong learning and educational opportunities for women in higher education. It has been developed from work undertaken by members of the Women in Higher Education Network with chapters organised in three thematic sections: Ambivalent Positions in the Academy Process and Pedagogy at Work Career – Identity – Home Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education is a major text in lifelong learning and educational opportunities for women in higher education. It will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in gender, research, process and practice in lifelong learning and higher education. Additionally, most women – whether or not they are part of the academy or recognise themselves as lifelong learners – will associate with many of the issues raised in this book. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ambivalent Positions in the Academy -- Challenging Women in the Male Academy: Think About Draining the Swamp -- Women: Mothers and Others: -- The Gendered Implications of Quality Assurance and Audit: Quality and Equality -- Process and Pedagogy at Work -- From Tangle to Web -- Strange Bedfellows -- Welcome to the Pleasure Dome -- Caring Monsters? -- Career – Identity – Home -- Distance Learners Juggling Home, Work and Study -- Three Ages of Woman -- Imaging ‘Career’ -- Women and Work/Life Balance -- Final Comments and Reflections: The Challenges and Negotiations of Lifelong Learning for Women in Higher Education.
There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Although today many more women follow academic careers than in the past, they do not find the welcome that they had hoped for and expected. Additionally, women students find that whilst they can now enter through the doors of universities, academic space remains embedded in structures and cultures of gender and social class. This book is a clear and accessible exploration of lifelong learning and educational opportunities for women in higher education. It has been developed from work undertaken by members of the Women in Higher Education Network with chapters organised in three thematic sections: Ambivalent Positions in the Academy Process and Pedagogy at Work Career – Identity – Home Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education is a major text in lifelong learning and educational opportunities for women in higher education. It will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in gender, research, process and practice in lifelong learning and higher education. Additionally, most women – whether or not they are part of the academy or recognise themselves as lifelong learners – will associate with many of the issues raised in this book. .
Higher education.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Educational sociology.
Professional education.
Vocational education.
Higher Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Sociology of Education.
Professional & Vocational Education.