Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning

ISBN-13: 9780415667586 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str.

Marion Bowl; Robert Tobias; Jennifer Leahy

Opis

Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning reflects on current debates and discourses around gender and education, in which some academics, practitioners and policy-makers have referred to a crisis of masculinity.

Spis treści

Section I: Concepts, Theories and Current Debates  1. Gender, masculinities and lifelong learning: entering the debate  2. Ideology, discourse and gender: a theoretical framework  3. Men and educational participation: is there a problem? Some findings from international surveys  Section II: Changing Discourses and Images  4. ‘Educating Jake’: A genealogy of Māori masculinity  5. Images of men and learning: the impact of imperialism on settler masculinities and lifelong learning  6. Gender, masculinities and migrants’ learning experiences  7. Men in United Kingdom adult and community education: the politics of practice and pedagogy  Section III: Gender, Masculinities and learning in the Life Course  8. Troubling boys and boys-only classes as the solution to ‘the problem of underachieving boys’  9. Learning about fatherhood for Men in ‘at risk’ Families  10. Men’s sheds, community learning and public policy  11. Men’s learning through community organisations: evidence from an Australian study  12. Older men’s perspectives on (re-)entering post-compulsory education: insights from a Scottish study  Section IV: Implications  13. Implications for practice, research and policy

O autorze

Marion Bowl is Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of Continuing Professional Development at the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK.

Robert Tobias is Research Fellow at the College of Education, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Jennifer Leahy is Lecturer in Adult Education Teaching and Research at the College of Education, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Graeme Ferguson is Researcher at the College of Education, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Jeffrey Gage is Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences at the Health Sciences Centre, College of Education, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.