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- Title
MOTERŲ KVALIFIKACIJA IR NOMADIŠKUMAS: MOKSLININKIŲ PATIRTIS.
- Authors
Vosyliūtė, Anelė
- Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of women's academic trips as an experience of professional training. Lithuanian scientists (women and men) are involved into different European Union's projects in different countries, which is connected with getting new experience; women intellectuals travel to take part in scientists groups and to visit events abroad. Some problems are emergening - how to cope with the work and family at the same time, how to adapt to the foreign research group (be it a traineeship or a conference). With reference to the feminism theories on ideals of education and equality of gender (Kuivunen A., Liljestr om M., 1998) the author represents the experience of women who participate in such events. The article reveals the consistency of patriarchal and modern attitudes of different people to academic trips. The problems connected with travelling in the process of education and in scientific activity as well as the gender differences in this sphere have been topical in Lithuania since the end of the 19th century. The academic trips of Lithuanian young people to the neighbor ing states (namely to the universities there, of Königsberg, Kraków, later - of Moscow and St. Petersburg) can be considered as mobility in space, as leaving home, as a way of searching a new identity. It related in that time to much financial trouble and the efforts of students' (mostly peasant) families. National independence of Lithuania has manifested itself in the orientation towards Western culture, Western way of life, social and political norms of civilization. In the public consciousness this phenomenon has reflected as the search of cultural pluralism, involvement in diversity of choices, transition to the world without borders. After long years of ascetic socialist way of life the beginning of the new era could hardly be imagined without the explosion of such long-restrained desir es (i.e. traveling). The life-history approach is used to reveal how those women construct meanings about their participation in scientific conferences. This method is goes along in sociology with the recognition of the subject' s competence. It coincides with the changing situation in this science where for the time being the co-existence of plurality of perspectives and local, contextual studies one the one hand, and grand narratives, disorder, flux and openness on the other, are widely acknowledged. Narratives give meanings, build series of otherwise isolated events.…
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; WOMEN employees; WOMEN travelers; FAMILY-work relationship; WOMEN intellectuals; VOYAGES &; travels -- Social aspects; WORK-life balance; SCIENTISTS; RESEARCH teams; EUROPEAN Union; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Gender Studies & Research, 2009, Vol 6, p36
- ISSN
1822-6310
- Publication type
Article