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37%OFFSue Jackson - Gendered Choices: Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning - 9789400706460 - V9789400706460
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Gendered Choices: Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning

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This important book breaks new ground in addressing issues of gendered learning in different contexts across the (adult) life span at the start of the 21st century.  Adult learning sits within a shifting landscape of educational policy, profoundly influenced by the skills agenda, by complex funding policies, new qualifications and the widening/narrowing participation debate.  The book is unique in highlighting the centrality of gendered choices to these developments which shape  participation in and experiences of lifelong learning.  

Gendered Choices critically examines the continued expansion of a skills-based approach in areas of lifelong learning, including career decisions, professional identities and informal ... Read more

Drawing on research from a range of contexts, Gendered Choices demonstrates that for women the public/private spaces of work and home are often conflated, although the gendering of ‘choice’ has largely been ignored by policy makers.

The themes of the book bring together some of these critical issues, explored through the multiple and fractured identities which constitute gendered lives.  The book addresses these in an international context, with contributions from Canada, Spain and Iran that provide a wider international perspective on shared issues.

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Product Details

Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Lifelong Learning Book Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400706460
SKU
V9789400706460
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

Reviews for Gendered Choices: Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning
From the reviews: “This research contributes to the debates surrounding the value society places on youth and gender specific worth. … Gendered Choices, provides great insight into the policy issues that support the dominant culture and its consideration of women as autonomous in their decision making, participation, and identify in education and lifelong learning. … Classes centered around feminist ... Read more

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