Conflict, risk and authority: female faculty members' stories of change

Most studies of gender and information technology have investigated gender differences in the relationships between education and achievement, and attitudes towards and use of computers. Few have explored gendered experiences of faculty members using learning technologies in higher education. The st...

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Published in:Technology, pedagogy and education pedagogy and education, 2005-10, Vol.14 (3), p.309-328
Main Author: Campbell, Katy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
Computer Uses in Education
Experiential Learning
Foreign Countries
Gender Differences
Higher Education
Information Technology
Phenomenology
Technology Integration
Women Faculty
Womens Education
Womens Studies
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Summary:Most studies of gender and information technology have investigated gender differences in the relationships between education and achievement, and attitudes towards and use of computers. Few have explored gendered experiences of faculty members using learning technologies in higher education. The study on which this article is based explored the experiences of 47 Canadian female faculty members integrating information and communications technologies (ICTs) into the higher education learning environment. The stories they told suggest that learning to use ICT in ways coherent with their values may be an intensely personal process of cognitive and cultural change for these women, in which beliefs and values may be examined and even realignedas they develop personal, moral authority. When faculty members explicitly contextualize the process as social, relational learning, it has the potential to be transformative at personal and societal (institutional) levels. The interrelated theoretical constructs of transformative or action learning, the development of authority-into-agency, and technology issues related to feminist pedagogy frame the three illustrative narratives of experience presented.
ISSN:1475-939X
1747-5139
DOI:10.1080/14759390500200209