Identity and Difference in Higher Education
Outsiders within
1st Edition
Published on 6. February 2018
206 pages
978-1-351-76337-0 (ISBN)
Description
This title was first published in 2001. This volume brings together contributions from a group of authors who explore the themes of identity and difference in the context of a range of power relationships within higher education.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,14 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-76337-0 (9781351763370)
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Persons
Pauline Anderson is Head of and a principal lecturer in Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. She entered higher education as a mature student and has researched women's unemployment and the operation of gender inequalities in the science and technological industries. Jenny Williams was a lecturer in Sociology and Head of Women's Studies at the University of Wolverhampton until she retired in 1998. She has written extensively on aspects of educational policy and higher education, particularly equal opportunities, anti-racist policies and widening participation. She is currently a freelance researcher.
Content
Section 1: Identity and Difference in Higher Education: The Context 1 Identity and Difference: Concepts and Themes 2 Mass Higher Education: The Construction of Difference 3 Mass Higher Education: Feminist Pedagogy in the Learning Society Section 2: Students in Post-Compulsory Education 4 'I'm Doing It for All of Us': Gender and Identity in the Transition to Higher Education 5 Education: What's in it for Mature Women? 6 Disabled Women Enter the Academy 7 Insiders and/or Outsiders: Black Female Voices from the Academy 8 Negotiating Identities: Women's Studies Students, Transferable Skills and Learning Outcomes 9 Narratives of a Gendered Self: Class, Interiority and Women's Educational Desires Section 3: Reflections from Feminist Academics: Researching and Teaching in HE 10 'Isn't He Good, but Can We Take Her Seriously?': Gendered Expectations in Higher Education 11 Betwixt and Between: C/ossifying Identities in Higher Education 12 Black Women in Ivory Towers: Racism and Sexism in the Academy 13 Surviving the Academic Alienation of Black Women 14 Common Beginnings, Differing Conclusions
