Published by iUniverse, 2004
ISBN 10: 0595320759 ISBN 13: 9780595320752
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Published by James Clarke & Co Ltd, United Kingdom, Cambridge, 1997
ISBN 10: 0718829727 ISBN 13: 9780718829728
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good. 'This book,' Patricia Lunneborg writes, 'documents a brilliant way out, for fifteen individuals, of this Age of Uncertainty for men.' This way out is the Open University. OU Men studies and documents the way that this remarkable institution has affected, indeed empowered, the lives of fifteen working men who hail from Manchester, Preston, and the East End, but also from Iran, India, Uganda, Ghana and Jamaica. Lawry Rhodes studied Law at Nottingham University, but failed his second year examinations. He became a building society manager, but found that his employers were more and more concerned with statistics and personal profit than with his interests or those of his customers. He began to learn with the Open University. Fearing for his job, 'morally disgruntled', but now with much study behind him, he quit. Today, with a B.A., Lawry Rhodes is a high school English teacher, and has published his poetry in a scholarly journal. He is one of the men who here narrate their lives up to and through the experience of further education at the Open University. The backdrop is the rapid and ruthless development in the world of work, especially the male world of work, in the second half of the twentieth century. Through the interviews recorded here, these men explain what education with the Open University has made possible for them in their different environments, how it has affected not only their attitudes to work and their job prospects, but also their relationships and often their values. From this candid interview material, Dr Lunneborg develops a wide-ranging analysis of the relationships between employment, education and personal life in contemporary Britain. Drawing upon the work of Charles Handy, Jeremy Rifkin and Will Hutton, she analyses the phenomena of downsizing, job-dissatisfaction, presenteeism (the compulsion to work absurdly long hours) and the threat of obsolescence, drawing out a cautiously optimistic prognosis. Education alone can develop the portable skills portfolio that forms the basis for a lifelong and manageable working life. Yet no less important, the author urges, is the willingness to detach male identities from paid employment, and to learn to bend our increased flexibility to the needs and opportunities of community service. OU Men will interest the ever increasing number of people involved in or considering an OU course, or any other distance learning programme. It will also be of value to those involved in the teaching and psychology of distance learning, and to anyone concerned with the anatomy of contemporary Britain and the ongoing changes in the world labour market. 'An inspiring and powerful book. the stories of these OU men pack a tremendous punch of optimism and hope. These inspiring stories contain some wonderful vignettes of modern life.' From the Foreword by Sir John Daniel, Vice Chancellor of The Open University. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Published by Praeger, 1992
ISBN 10: 0897892437 ISBN 13: 9780897892438
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Published by CONTINUUM INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING GROUP - ACADEMI, 1994
ISBN 10: 0304331635 ISBN 13: 9780304331635
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Frankfurt/Main ; New York : Campus-Verl., 1994
ISBN 10: 3593351404 ISBN 13: 9783593351407
Seller: Versandantiquariat Felix Mücke, Grasellenbach - Hammelbach, Germany
perfect. Condition: Gut. Seiten; Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! R16481 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1.
Published by James Clarke & Co Ltd, United Kingdom, Cambridge, 1997
ISBN 10: 0718829794 ISBN 13: 9780718829797
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'This book is about women stirred up over higher education. Itis about beating the system and beating the odds . Itis about people taking charge of their lives and writing new futures regardless of the past.' From the Authoris Preface OU Women concerns fourteen women who in their twenties, thirties or forties felt bored, unrewarded or trapped, in work or in the home - or just frustrated by their lack of education. It is about the way in which the Open University helped these women to turn their lives around with a bacheloris degree. Through a series of interviews these Open University Women here recount their lives, from the time they braved their first foundation course, through the attainment of their degrees, and to the changes this learning has made to their situations. Misha Hebel is no longer a receptionist, but a management consultant; Teresa Davis has changed career from a piano teacher to a cytogeneticist; and Shirleen Stibbe is no more a housewife, but, and as her first ever job, is now an actuary. Building on these first-hand accounts, Patricia Lunneborg develops an account of the obstacles that turn women away from education. These include the reduced opportunities that can result from a person's class and sex, the detrimental effects of early streaming on a pupil's confidence, and male bias in the learning environment. Such factors come into play at school, if not before; yet this is just the beginning. Quite likely handicapped by some or all of the above, in later life women find themselves aligned against further education not only by society's traditional conception of them - by what John Stuart Mill termed 'the tyranny of custom' - but also, if they are mothers, by the basic lack of fit between the demands of parenting and conventional university life. The Open University was brought into being in 1969 by Jennie Lee, Harold Wilson's Minister for the Arts, and now boasts over 140,000 graduates. There are no entry qualifications, and as distance learning there is no burden of attendance. The OU is everyone's second chance, but especially women's second chance. With over half of its students female, the OU has a higher proportion of women to men than any other university. Along with its companion volume OU Men, OU Women will interest the ever increasing number of people involved in or considering an OU course, or any other distance learning programme. It will also be of value to those involved in the teaching and psychology of distance learning, and to anyone concerned with modern British society. With a Foreword by The Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Praeger Publishers, U.S.A., 1990
ISBN 10: 0897892143 ISBN 13: 9780897892148
Seller: Gene The Book Peddler, Winchester, NH, U.S.A.
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Published by Beltz, 2002
ISBN 10: 3407228457 ISBN 13: 9783407228451
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
ISBN 10: 359335473X ISBN 13: 9783593354736
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Published by Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982
ISBN 10: 0139258671 ISBN 13: 9780139258671
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Wraps have only light wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
Published by iUniverse, 2004
ISBN 10: 0595664741 ISBN 13: 9780595664740
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Bergin and Garvey, 1992
ISBN 10: 0897892437 ISBN 13: 9780897892438
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HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 205pp. Inscribed by Lunneborg. large octavo hardbound, tight binding, boards clean and crisp; interior clean throughout. dj: faded, scuffed, lightly worn. inscribed by author.
Published by Frankfurt/Main; New York, Campus-Verl., 1996
Seller: Antiquariat Bookfarm, Löbnitz, Germany
Softcover. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. Jf 1145 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.
Frankfurt, Campus Verlag 1994. 225 Seiten. Ill. Orig. Broschur, 8°. Gut erhalten.
Published by Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, 1989
ISBN 10: 0398056234 ISBN 13: 9780398056230
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Praeger (edition ), 1999
ISBN 10: 0897895983 ISBN 13: 9780897895989
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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