Gender And The Changing Face Of Higher Education: A Feminized Future?
Title | Gender And The Changing Face Of Higher Education: A Feminized Future? PDF eBook |
Author | Leathwood, Carole |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0335227139 |
Drawing on international and national data, theory and research, Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education provides an accessible but nuanced discussion of the 'feminization' of higher education for postgraduates, policy-makers and academics working in the field.
The Rise of Women in Higher Education
Title | The Rise of Women in Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Gary A. Berg |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2019-11-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1475853637 |
The story of the American university in the past half century is about the rise of women in participation as students, faculty members, college athletes, and in subsequently changing the overall university culture for the better. Now almost sixty percent of the overall college student population in America is female, and still growing. By the year 2000, women surpassed men worldwide in attendance at higher education institutions. At the same time, after years of a disproportionate dominant male professoriate, female faculty members are now becoming the majority of university professors. While top university presidents are still largely male, women have achieved real gains in the overall administrative ranks and trustee positions. In all areas of the university disparities still exist in terms of compensation and balance in key areas of the academy, but the overall positive trend is clear. Few to this date have recognized and chronicled this extraordinary change in college education—one of society’s fundamental and influential institutions. For universities the test for the future is to make the changes needed in broad areas within higher education from financial aid to curriculum, student activities, and overall campus culture in order to better foster a newly empowered majority of women students.
Effects of Higher Education Reforms: Change Dynamics
Title | Effects of Higher Education Reforms: Change Dynamics PDF eBook |
Author | Martina Vukasović |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012-12-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9462090165 |
Higher education is in transition. On the one hand, over the last decades it has become politically and economically more important and thus also an object of reforms. On the other hand, higher education has become less special and is no longer able to justify its unique governance arrangements. This volume presents a collection of contributions that go beyond reform agendas as such and focus on the effects of reforms at all relevant levels in higher education systems. It is organised in four themes – education, research, governance, and academic profession – with a variety of levels of analysis, theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and geographical foci. The topics in focus include the possible impact of latest national and European initiatives, changes in the primary processes (education and research) on the levels of institutions, professions and for individuals as well as higher education dynamics in contexts often overlooked in the literature (e.g. Africa). The aim is to ‘take stock’ of the growing knowledge basis with respect to higher education with a special focus on the influence of reforms on the key aspects of higher education.
ICGR 2018 International Conference on Gender Research
Title | ICGR 2018 International Conference on Gender Research PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Ana Azevedo |
Publisher | Academic Conferences and publishing limited |
Pages | 649 |
Release | 2018-04-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1911218786 |
Perspectives on Women’s Higher Education Leadership from around the World
Title | Perspectives on Women’s Higher Education Leadership from around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Jones |
Publisher | MDPI |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2018-10-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3038972649 |
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Perspectives on Women’s Higher Education Leadership from around the World" that was published in Administrative Sciences
The Emergence of Postfeminist Identities in Higher Education
Title | The Emergence of Postfeminist Identities in Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Eleftheria Atta |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2021-05-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1000386147 |
By drawing on qualitative research conducted in universities in Cyprus, this book presents an account of life in the academy from a feminist perspective. In doing so, the texts uncover new gendered identities emerging as a result of neoliberal and postfeminist discourses in Higher Education. Adopting a psychosocial lens, and drawing on theories of affect and performativity, this volume explains academics’ responses to growing levels of stress, anxiety, precarity and competition in their professional environment. Chapters offer rich observation of how academic staff and faculty negotiate aspects of femininity and masculinity within the academy, and so highlights the performance of ‘gendered academic subjectivities’ as a way in which academics deal with increasing pressures and anxiety. Ultimately proposing a typography of emergent, affective identities including industry academics, fossilised, family and wannabe academics, the volume yields important insights into the current workings of Higher Education and shows the personal and professional impacts of neoliberal dynamics. This volume will prove to be a useful resource for researchers and high-level scholars in the fields of education, sociology of education and gender studies. More generally, scholars and academics with an interest in the changing face of contemporary Higher Education will find this book informative.
A Philosophical Approach to Perceptions of Academic Writing Practices in Higher Education
Title | A Philosophical Approach to Perceptions of Academic Writing Practices in Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda French |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2022-05-12 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0429559747 |
This book takes a philosophical approach to the question ‘what is academic writing?’ and specifically explores the question of how academic writing and writing development can be better understood and developed by lecturers in higher education. It examines how a number of interconnected and interdisciplinary political, linguistic, discursive, ontological and epistemological frameworks can be used to inform a ‘post-qualitative’ approach for research into higher education academic writing practices, employing a Bourdusian/ Deluzean inspired approach. Using lecturers’ own perceptions and experiences of academic writing, and treating them as part of a ‘professional academic writing in higher education habitus’, the book illustrates and analyses a number of ideas and concepts through a broadly post-qualitative paradigm. It also offers a number of innovative academic writing and writing development practices. Offering an in-depth discussion into how lecturers might better negotiate academic writing practices and use their own academic writing experiences to develop students’ writing, this book will be highly relevant to academics, scholars and post-graduate students working in higher education.