Re: [-empyre-] Isabel's thoughts on education

[Jeff Sonstein <jeffs@it.rit.edu>]

On 9 Dec 2003, at 3:21 PM, soft_skinned_space wrote:

> And it would be good to hear from other women about obstacles
> encountered in education.

pardon me if this has been mentioned before in this thread...

Sherry Turkle's book
"Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet"

there are some interesting discussions in there
both about identity formation in general
[one of my particular interest areas]
and about though/process/design obstacles
which are sometimes seen as gender-specific
[like bricolage vs top-down-structured approaches]

jeffs

--
Jeff Sonstein, Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
==============================================
IT Dept Webspace:                       http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/
Experimental Server:                       http://streamer.rit.edu/
Personal Weblog: http://streamer.rit.edu/weblogs/dotRant/
Public Key:                    http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/jeffs.asc

"Power Corrupts.
 PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely."
          -  Edward Tufte  -