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Here, at last, is a volume that explores and analyzes learning as a distinctive experience for women. The authors are all established adult education professionals and recognized authorities on women as adult learners. Together, they examine and compare theimportance of such factors as sense of identity, self-esteem, social world, and power in what and how women learn. Drawing from extensive research and scholarship, as well as from personal stories, they reveal the numerous ways in which women experience the learning process. They explain, for example, how women often become personally connected to the object and process of learning. They also analyze these different experiences to show education and training professionals how to better design and conduct programs for women. Women as Learners offers specific recommendations to improve all types of formal and informal adult educational programs, including literacy education, counseling and support groups, workplace training, and professional development activities. Concise yet comprehensive, this long-awaited book provides the most current principles for practice. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
ch. 1 Women's Learning: A Kaleidoscope
ch. 2 Contexts of Women's Learning
ch. 3 Women's Self and Learning
ch. 4 Talk, Identity, & Power: Voice and Silence in Women's Learning
ch. 5 Women's Knowing and Learning
ch. 6 Transformative Learning in the Lives of Women, Ann Brooks
ch. 7 Feminist Pedagogy in Three Movements: Stories from the Field, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
ch. 8 Re-Searching for Women's Learning
ch. 9 Re-Vision Learning Opportunities for Women, Jane M. Hugo
ch. 10 Creating Knowledge about Women Learners