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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.
Subjects:
Women in technology.
Technology and women.
Technology > Sociological aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Feminism and the workplace
Entering a gender specific workplace
Gender and adult education
Gender in distance education
Gender performance in virtual learning groups
Gender relations in IT education
Gender stereotypes
Gendered knowledge production in universities
Adolescents' education and sexuality
Women in computer science
Web 2.0 and gender
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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