Women And Distance Education: Challenges And Opportunities (routledge Studies In Distance Education)

Women and Distance Education By focusing on women in distance education, Christine von Prümmer examines the often neglected area of gender issues throughout the distance education world. A wide variety of evidence from different countries supports the conclusion that open and distance learning has the potential to provide equal opportunities in higher and continuing education and that these are often being missed. Women and Distance Education: • • • • • • is concerned with how women manage further education courses without giving up careers or family commitments; provides a wealth of empirical data and material, much of which is the author’s own work; examines the differences in the learning styles and communication patterns of women and men; brings a broad international perspective to the research data and analysis; covers issues of minority women, considering class and gender; considers how the www and the electronic campus impacts equality in distance learning. The author believes that it is up to distance education policy-makers to provide a framework for women students that will limit the risks and maximise the opportunities. This book, which draws on fascinating case study material, will offer vital information for these policy-makers and will be relevant for the whole distance education community. Christine von Prümmer is a Senior Researcher at the German FernUniversität, a Distance Teaching University. She has experience of evaluating distance education systems and has carried out cross-national comparative research on the situation of women and men in distance education. Routledge Studies in Distance Education General editors: Desmond Keegan and Alan Tait Distance Education Theoretical Principles of Distance Education Edited by Desmond Keegan Distance Education: New Perspectives Edited by Keith Harry, Magnus John and Desmond Keegan Collaboration in Distance Education Edited by Louise Moran and Ian Mugridge Otto Peters on Distance Education Edited by Desmond Keegan Theory and Practice in Distance Education Börje Holmberg Technology, Open Learning and Distance Education A.W. (Tony) Bates Open and Distance Learning Today Edited by Fred Lockwood Foundations of Distance Education, 3rd edition Desmond Keegan Opening Education Terry Evans and Daryl Nation Staff Development in Open and Flexible Learning Edited by Colin Latchem and Fred Lockwood Globalising Education: Trends and Applications Robin Mason Women and Distance Education Challenges and opportunities Christine von Prümmer London and New York First published 2000 by RoutledgeFalmer 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeFalmer 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” RoutledgeFalm