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Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning book cover

1st Edition

Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning

Edited By Marion Bowl, Robert Tobias, Jennifer Leahy, Graeme Ferguson, Jeffrey Gage Copyright 2012
208 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. This book explores questions such as: Are men under-represented in education? Are women outstripping men in terms of achievement? What evidence supports the view that men are... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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