Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Barbara Bagilhole (auth.), Pamela Cotterill, Sue Jackson, Gayle Letherby (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Series: Lifelong Learning Book Series 9
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-20
Challenging Women in the Male Academy: Think About Draining the Swamp....Pages 21-32
Women: Mothers and Others:....Pages 33-52
The Gendered Implications of Quality Assurance and Audit: Quality and Equality....Pages 53-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-72
From Tangle to Web....Pages 73-93
Strange Bedfellows....Pages 95-115
Welcome to the Pleasure Dome....Pages 117-129
Caring Monsters?....Pages 131-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-158
Distance Learners Juggling Home, Work and Study....Pages 159-181
Three Ages of Woman....Pages 183-200
Imaging ‘Career’....Pages 201-221
Women and Work/Life Balance....Pages 223-240
Final Comments and Reflections: The Challenges and Negotiations of Lifelong Learning for Women in Higher Education....Pages 241-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-259

✦ Subjects

Higher Education; Educational Policy; Education & Society; Professional & Vocational Education