Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cotterill, Pamela (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Jackson, Sue (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Letherby, Gayle (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Σειρά: Lifelong Learning Book Series ; 9
• Θέματα: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Professional & Vocational 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 throug...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.