Gendered Choices: Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning (Hardcover, 2011)

About the Editors.- About the Contributors.- Introduction; Sue Jackson, Irene Malcolm and Kate Thomas.- Part One: Learning Pathways - Gendered Learning.- Introduction Part One; Irene Malcolm, Sue Jackson and Kate Thomas.- 1. Re-asserting a relational model of teaching and learning: a gender perspective; Ursula Murray.- 2. Widening Educational Participation : masculinities, aspirations and decision-making processes; Penny Jane Burke.- 3. Innovative educational models for women returners in science, engineering and technology professions; Clem Herman, Barbara Hodgson, Gill Kirkup and Elizabeth Whitelegg.- 4. Women's Choices Shattered: the impact of gender violence at universities; Esther Oliver.- Conclusion Part One; Irene Malcolm, Sue Jackson and Kate Thomas.- Part Two: The Agenda for Gender in Workplace Learning.- Introduction Part Two; Kate Thomas, Sue Jackson and Irene Malcolm.- 5. Women work-based learners: factors affecting lifelong learning and career opportunities; Linda Miller.- 6. Where is gender within the workplace learning agenda?; Suzanne Hyde.- 7. An opportunity to widen participation through work-based learning? The impact of gender; Anita Walsh.- 8. Educated women in the labour market of Iran: changing worlds and new solutions; Narjes Mehdizadeh and Gill Scott.- Conclusion Part Two; Kate Thomas, Sue Jackson and Irene Malcolm.- Part Three: Identity, Intimacy and In/formal Pathways.- Introduction Part Three; Sue Jackson, Irene Malcolm and Kate Thomas.- 9. Transitions in professional identity: women in the early years workforce; Carrie Cable and Gill Goodliff.- 10.- Getting by' or 'getting ahead'? Gendered educational and career decision-making in networks of intimacy; Alison Fuller, Ros Foskett, Brenda Johnston and Karen Paton.- 11. Power, resistance and informal pathways: lifelong learning in feminist nonprofit organisations; Leona English.- 12. Lifelong Learning in later years: choices and constraints for older women; Jan Etienne and Sue Jackson.- Conclusion Part Three; Sue Jackson, Irene Malcolm and Kate Thomas.- Conclusion; Irene Malcolm, Sue Jackson and Kate Thomas. Index.