Women and distance education : challenges and opportunities

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of illustrations = ⅶ
• Foreword = xi
• Preface = xiii
• List of abbreviations = xvii
• Glossary of German terms = xix
• 1 Introduction = 1
• Issues and focus : gender and distance education = 2
• The Fern Universit$$\ddot a$$t as case study and illustration = 3
• Women students and staff = 13
• System evaluation : taking the measure of distance education = 17
• Comments on the book and brief guide to chapters = 22
• 2 Distance education : studying outside the ivory tower = 25
• Overcoming geographical distances = 25
• Distance education and equal opportunities = 27
• Overcoming social distance : recruiting working-class students = 35
• Overcoming the gender gap in educational opportunities = 39
• Removing the blinkers : overcoming androcentrism in distance education = 46
• 3 Home study : the learning environments of women distance students = 49
• The work situations of distance students = 50
• Working from home : 'A woman's work is never done' = 55
• Studying at home : keeping women in their place? = 67
• Emancipation through distance education : observations from a pilot project = 75
• Home study : the pitfalls and potential of making education a private concern = 78
• 4 Women studying at a distance : learning styles and local support services = 80
• Learning styles of distance students : theoretical and empirical context = 81
• Gender and study centre attendance = 85
• The use and relevance of study centre services = 100
• Implications = 107
• 5 Getting in touch : communication and the new technologies = 109
• Communication in distance education = 110
• Experience with technically-mediated communication = 120
• Virtual equality : the place of women in the electronic campus = 135
• 6 Minority women : class and gender in distance education = 138
• Class and gender issues in European distance education = 139
• Family of origin = 146
• Data on working-class women at the Fern Universit$$\ddot a$$t = 153
• Personal data = 158
• Comments on the class and gender of Fern Universit$$\ddot a$$t students = 164
• 7 Distance education and the social mobility of women = 166
• Mobility patterns of working-class women = 167
• Major subject choice and its role in women's social mobility = 176
• The study goals of women distance students = 188
• Conclusion : working-class women using the opportunities in distance education = 197
• 8 Challenges, chances, changes : distance education for women = 200
• Challenges = 201
• Chances = 202
• Changes = 204
• Bibliography = 208
• Index = 216