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This book is about choices : the choices we are able to make, whether or not in situations of our own choosing, and the choices we are not. It is about the gendered choices that affect our engagement with lifelong learning , including learning at work, and what that means for our identities. It has become difficult to write about ‘choice’ in recent times, with discussions of individual choice located in the neo-liberal discourses of market forces. The current language of policy is based within an individualised notion of personal choice, which is constructed as rational and equally available to all. However, whilst ‘choice’ has been a mantra in education policy, the issue of the gendering of choice has been relatively neglected, although ‘choices ’ continue to be gendered (and classed, racialised and sexualised). Nevertheless, discussions of apparently neutral and rational choices have become embedded in discourses, ideologies and policy developments of lifelong learning . This book aims to deconstruct such discussions and develop a different world view. The book reflects a variety of approaches to gender sensitive research in a range of contexts. It captures the voices of women as authors, researchers and practitioners as well as subjects in the contemporary field of lifelong learning .
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Jackson, S., Malcolm, I., Thomas, K. (2011). Introduction. In: Jackson, S., Malcolm, I., Thomas, K. (eds) Gendered Choices. Lifelong Learning Book Series, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0647-7_1
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