Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Shirley Booth

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gender, equity, learning, and information technology can intersect to form a theoretical and abstract field of knowledge emanating from very real, concrete, lived experiences. Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts discusses the social studies of information technology, specifically how IT skills are learned and how such skills are gendered. This book draws upon the disciplines of sociology, education, cultural and media studies, and gender studies, using a variety of research methods and theoretical perspectives to approach gender and IT in different contexts: education settings, work settings and everyday life. This unique reference source brings to light gender relations and IT, examining them in a multidimensional way.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgment......Page 22
Women, Men and Programming: Knowledge, Metaphors and Masculinity......Page 24
New Gender Relations in the Transforming IT Industry of Malaysia......Page 48
Women in Computer Science in Afghanistan......Page 71
“For Me it Doesn’t Matter where I put my Information”: Enactments of Agency, Mutual Learning, and Gender in IT Design......Page 88
Attaching People and Technology: Between E and Government......Page 106
Against All Odds, From All-Girls Schools to All-Boys Workplaces: Women’s Unsuspecting Trajectory into the UK ICT Sector......Page 122
Challenging Gender Stereotypes Using Virtual Pedagogical Characters......Page 136
Absent Women: Research on Gender Relations in IT Education Mediated by Swedish Newspapers......Page 156
Heteronormativity Revisited: Adolescents’ Educational Choices, Sexuality and Soaps......Page 173
Approaching Higher Education: A Life-World Story of Home-Places, Work-Places and Learn-Places......Page 196
Gendered Distance Education Spaces: “Keeping Women in Place”?......Page 215
Computer Courses in Adult Education in a Gender Perspective......Page 232
Gendered Knowledge Production in Universities in a Web 2.0 World......Page 254
Queen Bees, Workers and Drones: Gender Performance in Virtual Learning Groups......Page 267
Towards a Feminist Manifesto for E-Learning: Principles to Inform Practices*......Page 278
Compilation of References......Page 298
About the Contributors......Page 324
Index......Page 330