Gender and lifelong learning : critical feminist engagements /
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London, England :
Routledge,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : gendering lifelong learning / Carole Leathwood and Becky Francis
- 1. Unprotected participation in lifelong learning and the politics of hope : a feminist reality check of discourses around flexibility, seamlessness and learner earners / Jill Blackmore
- 2. Locating the learner within EU policy : trajectories, complexities, identities / Jacky Brine
- 3. Gendered constructions of lifelong learning and the learner in the UK policy context / Carole Leathwood
- 4. Troubling trajectories : gendered 'choices' and pathways from school to work / Becky Francis
- 5. Masculinities, femininities and resistance to participation in post-compulsory education / Louise Archer
- 6. Fair access? Exploring gender, access and participation beyond entry to higher education / Penny Jane Burke
- 7. Community education : participation, risk and desire / Lyn Tett
- 8. From childcare practitioner to FE tutor : biography, identity and lifelong learning / Helen Colley
- 9. Disability, gender and identity : the experience of disabled students in higher education / Sheila Riddell
- 10. The in/visible journey : black women's lifelong lessons in higher education / Heidi Safia Mirza
- 11. Older women as lifelong learners / Barbara Kamler
- 12. War and diaspora as lifelong learning contexts for immigrant women / Shahrzad Mojab
- 13. Conclusion / Becky Francis and Carole Leathwood.