Approaching Higher Education: A Life-World Story of Home-Places, Work-Places and Learn-Places

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Author(s): Shirley Booth (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Eva Wigforss (University of Gothenburg, Sweden.)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 19
Source title: Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shirley Booth (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Sara Goodman (Lund University, Sweden) and Gill Kirkup (Open University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-813-5.ch010
EISBN13: 9781615208142
ISBN13: 9781615208135
ISBN10: 1615208135

Keywords: Gender & Technology / Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Science

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The chapter tells of two women with low educational qualifications who embark on a journey into higher education by taking a distance course to introduce them to and induct them into academic practices, under the auspices of their trades union. In order to analyse and describe their learning, we look more closely at their contexts for learning, their life-worlds, using the conceptual framework of life-world phenomenology. Learning, in this case, means learning to find their place in higher education, and we place this against a background of the variation of ways in which the whole cohort of students was found to conceptualize the university. Grounded in an analysis of two interviews and written course assignments, we find superficial similarities and deep differences in their journey into higher education, and we give consideration to this from a gendered perspective.

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