Gender Issues in Action Research: Implications for Adult Education

Autor/in	Heiskanen, Tuula
Titel	Gender Issues in Action Research: Implications for Adult Education
Quelle	In: International Journal of Lifelong Education, 25 (2006) 5, S.519-533 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-1370
Schlagwörter	Social Structure; Adult Education; Action Research; Gender Issues; Sex Fairness; Foreign Countries; Theory Practice Relationship; Comparable Worth; Organizational Change; Wages; Change Agents; Case Studies; Feminism; Research and Development; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialstruktur; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Projektforschung; Geschlechterfrage; Sexualaufklärung; Ausland; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Lohngerechtigkeit; Organisationswandel; Wage; Löhne; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Feminismus; Forschung und Entwicklung; Finnland
Abstract	Gender equality is a widely recognized value. Still, on the practical level, it is not easy to achieve true gender equality. Gender has proved to be a complicated issue both for research and practice. Gender change projects trying to make changes in detected disadvantages have repeatedly run into a problem: it is difficult to put gender issues on the agenda and it is difficult to keep them there. With three case examples, this article addresses the question of why it is difficult to approach gender issues in change projects and what conditions make this less difficult. It deals with the potential of action research of making a contribution to gender issues and emphasizes that change projects need a concept of gender which includes the relevant aspects of social structure and social process. In conclusion, the article presents implications for adult education, especially the challenge of developing concepts of empowerment and agency to comply with the postmodern condition and the challenge of creating spaces for interpretation and action. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10