Gender issues in learning and working with information technology [electronic resource] : social constructs and cultural contexts / [edited by] Shirley Booth, Sara Goodman, Gill Kirkup.

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Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2010.Description: electronic texts (xxi, 328 p. : ill.) : digital filesISBN:

9781615208142 (ebook)
1615208143 (ebook)

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305.43/6 22

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T36 .G44 2010e

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1. Women, men and programming / Inger Boivie -- 2. New gender relations in the transforming IT-industry of Malaysia / Ulf Mellstr�om -- 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 M�ortberg, 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.

Abstract: "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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"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.