Gender and Lifelong Learning : Critical Feminist Engagements (Hardcover)

Introduction: Gendering Lifelong Learning  Section 1: The Policy Context  1. Unprotected Participation in Life Long Learning and the Politics of Hope: A Feminist Reality Check of Discourses Around Flexibility, Seamlessness and Learner Earners  2. Locating the Learner within EU Policy: Trajectories, Complexities, Identities  3. Gendered Constructions of Lifelong Learning and the Learner in the UK Policy Context  Section 2: Accessing Lifelong Learning  4. Troubling Trajectories: Gendered ‘Choices’ and Pathways from School to Work  5. Masculinities, Femininities and Resistance to Participation in Post-Compulsory Education  6. Fair Access? Exploring Gender, Access and Participation beyond Entry to Higher Education  Section 3: Experiences of Lifelong Learning  7. Community Education: Participation, Risk and Desire  8. From Childcare Practitioner to FE Tutor: Biography, Identity and Lifelong Learning  9. Disability, Gender and Identity: The Experiences of Disabled Students in Higher Education  10. The In/Visible Journey: Black Women’s Life-Long Lessons in Higher Education  11. Older Women as Lifelong Learners  12. War and Diaspora as Lifelong Learning Contexts for Immigrant Women