Conference
Dato: 23.08.2007 – 25.08.2007
The Symposium is open to all researchers, doctoral students and others
who are interested in the intersecting research areas of Gender,
Learning and IT. The conference is organized by GLIT network and
coordinated by Shirley Booth and Sara Goodman, Learning Lund, Lund
University, Sweden.
/*Keynote speakers:
**· Leona Burton*, professor emeritus, Mathematics Education,
Birmingham University, UK
/Leona Burton is internationally known for her research in three main
areas: learning and teaching mathematics, social justice in mathematics
education and gender issues in mathematics education.
/*· **Vivian Lagesen*, postdoctoral researcher, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
/Vivian Lagesen is a sociologist, with a specialization in Technology
and Gender Studies./ Vivian Lagesen´s /current research project is a
study of learning and occupational culture among knowledge workers in
software companies in Norway, Malaysia and the US (California).
/· *Les Back*, professor of sociology, Goldsmiths University of
London, UK
/Les Back´s current research explores ethnicity, gender and identities
on the Internet focusing on white racist sites and IT as a knowledge
media.
His specialties include: race and racism, multiculturalism, urban life,
social exclusion, popular culture and music, sport sociology,
postcolonial theory, youth and gender, work and institutional racism.
/· *Els Rommes*, professor, Philosophy of Education, Radboud
University Nijmegen
/Els Rommes is a researcher in Gender and Technology Studies. Her
research has focused on analyzing the ‚genderscripts‘ of ICTs; the
functionalities, identities and cultural codes of gender that become
(un)consciously embodied in ICTs by designers and advertisers and that
pre-structure its use.

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