| 书目名称 | Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education | | 编辑 | Pamela Cotterill,Sue Jackson,Gayle Letherby | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Speaks directly to and from the experiences of women teaching and learning in higher education.Makes an important contribution to debates about social inclusion and life-long learning.Valuable resourc | | 丛书名称 | Lifelong Learning Book Series | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | CONCEPTUALISING CHALLENGES AND NEGOTIATIONS FOR WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION 1 2 3 Pamela Cotterill , Sue Jackson and Gayle Letherby 1 2 3 Staffordshire University; Birkeck, University of London; University of Plymouth INTRODUCTION Despite the historical tradition of academia as a male space (Evans, 1995; Abbott et al, 2005; Stanley, 1997; Letherby, 2003) it is possible to argue that the expansion of higher education in the 1980s and 1990s benefited women more than it did men. By 1995 there were two and a half times more women in the academy than in 1970/1 (Abbott et al 2005), and in the decade to follow the numbers of women undergraduate students had overtaken men with a substantial minority of these being older, non-standard entrants. Furthermore, as Paula J Caplan (1997: 3) argues: Visions of the academic life draw us women toward it, picturing an intellectual community whose members search with passion and integrity for Truth and Knowledge. We imagine that in academia we shall find freedom from bias, freedom from worldly struggles of power and wealth, freedom to choose what to study and what to say, and an environment characterized by tolerance and openness, where everyone’s energ | | 出版日期 | Book 2007 | | 关键词 | Gender; Lifelong Learning; education; higher education; learning; quality; quality assurance; university | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6110-3 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7539-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-6110-3Series ISSN 1871-322X Series E-ISSN 2730-5325 | | issn_series | 1871-322X | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 |
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