Gender issues in learning and working with information technology social constructs and cultural contexts /

"This book deals with diffe four features of the burgeoning knowledge society: gender, equity, learning, and information technology with the focus on gender - not in the taken-for-granted biological sense of sex but in the socially constituted sense of it"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Booth, Shirley, 1945-, Goodman, Sara., Kirkup, Gill.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2010.
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300 # # |a electronic texts (xxi, 328 p. : ill.) :  |b digital files. 
504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 # |a 1. Women, men and programming / Inger Boivie -- 2. New gender relations in the transforming IT-industry of Malaysia / Ulf Mellström -- 3. Women in computer science in Afghanistan / Eva Hoffmann -- 4. "For me it doesn't matter where I put my information" / Johanna Sefyrin -- 5. Attaching people and technology / Christina Mörtberg, Pirjo Elovaara -- 6. Against all odds, from all-girls schools to all-boys workplaces / Marie Griffiths, Helen Richardson -- 7. Challenging gender stereotypes using virtual pedagogical characters / Agneta Gulz, Magnus Haake -- 8. Absent women / Martha Blomqvist -- 9. Heteronormativity revisited / Els Rommes -- 10. Approaching higher education / Shirley Booth, Eva Wigforss -- 11. Gendered distance education spaces-- Annika Rensfeldt, Sandra Riomar -- 12. Computer courses in adult education in a gender perspective / Minna Salminen-Karlsson -- 13. Gendered knowledge production in universities in a Web 2.0 world / Gill Kirkup -- 14. Queen bees, workers and drones / Gwyneth Hughes -- 15. Towards a feminist manifesto for e-learning / Gill Kirkup, Sigrid Schmitz, Erna Kotkamp, Els Rommes, Aino-Maija Hiltunen. 
506 # # |a Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. 
520 3 # |a "This book deals with diffe four features of the burgeoning knowledge society: gender, equity, learning, and information technology with the focus on gender - not in the taken-for-granted biological sense of sex but in the socially constituted sense of it"--Provided by publisher. 
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588 # # |a Description based on print version. 
650 # 0 |a Women in technology. 
650 # 0 |a Technology and women. 
650 # 0 |a Technology  |x Sociological aspects. 
650 # 0 |a Information technology  |x Social aspects. 
653 # # |a Feminism and the workplace 
653 # # |a Entering a gender specific workplace 
653 # # |a Gender and adult education 
653 # # |a Gender in distance education 
653 # # |a Gender performance in virtual learning groups 
653 # # |a Gender relations in IT education 
653 # # |a Gender stereotypes 
653 # # |a Gendered knowledge production in universities 
653 # # |a Adolescents' education and sexuality 
653 # # |a Women in computer science 
653 # # |a Web 2.0 and gender 
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700 1 # |a Goodman, Sara. 
700 1 # |a Kirkup, Gill. 
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