Ostrouch-Kamińska, Joanna

Private world(s) : gender and informal learning of adults by Joanna Ostrouch( )

19 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 931 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book is the fourth production from the ESREA Gender network and the third in the ESREA Sense bookseries. Once more, there is an opportunity for readers to gain a better understanding of questions related to gender and adult learning from researchers deeply involved in this specific field of adult education. The notion of informal learning has already been treated as a chapter in the 2003 book, but it becomes central and relevant in this new book with the growing complexity of our society. The editors emphasise "private world(s)s" in the book title, but the content of the book proves that informal learning processes, aside from the self, are combined with contextual opportunities, which have been chosen or not. Their introduction covers the essential concepts of gender and informal learning. The contributors enlighten the debate with their geographical diversity all over Europe, but also with their diverse theoretical systems of references to the diverse social contexts that have been analysed. The first part of this book, entitled "private spheres", presents and analyses painful gendered discriminations and injustices. We can't escape to the emotions it evokes, from the soldiers after the war to men's breast cancer: both relate to men and the specificity of their suffering. This is an interesting and quite new opportunity to question gender. In the second part related to "minorities and activism", we discover groups who learn through their organised fight against discriminations. Emotions give way to a positive energy when we discover the strategies that feminists, or migrants or also retired men find to question the society in which they live. The authors show us not only what is learned by such communities, but also what their environment can learn from them. The last part of the book leads us to different "contexts of informal learning", mostly related to opportunities and obstacles in education and work situations. Community training, social work studies, scientist's work and management school are the contexts chosen to clarify stereotypes and the discrimination along the lifespan for women. From East to West and North to South of Europe, it seems once more that the debate presents a lot of similarities. This book can be considered as original in its area and useful, mostly because it presents a mixture of sadness and hope within gendered learning processes. In this book, it seems that men take their place in the gender debate and its analysis with a new vision of the male realities. More than anything else, this book is a reminder of what has to be done in our society, specifically in adult education, to imagine and to create better pathways, conditions and issues to respect all learners, women as well as men. - Edmee Ollagnier, Ex-University of Geneva, Switzerland

Gender - Diversity - Intersectionality (new) perspectives in adult education by Joanna Ostrouch( )

8 editions published in 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 361 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gender is a category with far-reaching consequences on educational processes which have been extensively investigated in the last decades. But current political situations and societal developments such as globalization or movement of refugees require to broaden the perspectives in gender research. The volume aims at giving an insight into attempts to cope with these new challenges particularly in adult education.The articles of this book have been reviewed by Prof. Elisabeth Sander and Prof. Astrid Męczkowska-Christiansen

Researching gender in adult learning( Book )

6 editions published in 2008 in English and German and held by 46 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Przywiązanie i przekraczanie : płeć w studiach empirycznych( Book )

3 editions published in 2006 in Polish and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Nieuchwytne : relacje matek i córek w codzienności by Joanna Ostrouch( Book )

2 editions published in 2004 in Polish and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mężczyźni na przełęczy życia : studium socjopedagogiczne by Iwona Chmura-Rutkowska( Book )

2 editions published in 2007 in Polish and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Considering gender in adult learning and in academia : (in)visible act by Joanna Ostrouch( Book )

3 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rodzina partnerska jako relacja współzależnych podmiotów : studium socjopedagogiczne narracji rodziców przeciążonych rolami by Joanna Ostrouch( Book )

2 editions published between 2011 and 2015 in Polish and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Researching gender in adult education( Book )

1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Genderforschung in der Erwachsenenbildung - Ein Konferenzbericht by Joanna Ostrouch( )

1 edition published in 2008 in German and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide