Gender, equity and the discourse of the independent learner in higher education

By Carole Leathwood. 2006

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8d2ce6ed5e5e20aaa0ecbcb4bad6821530af9c2c

Citations in the corpus

• Value conflicts in higher education teaching (2012, unknown): “For example, it has been argued that although students expect and want to be independent, ‘dominant constructions of the independent learner are gendered and culturally specific, and as such are inappropriate for the majority of students in a mass higher education system’ (Leathwood 2006, 611).”
• Transitions and turning points: exploring how first-in-family female students story their transition to university and student identity formation (2014, unknown): “This need to be ‘independent’ is a key facet of the neo-liberal political discourse, where subjects are expected to, ‘take full responsibility for their own lives and future lives as self reliant, self-managing autonomous individuals’ (Leathwood, 2006, p. 612).”