Eleven women who are eminent educational researchers speak out intimately in this work. From these autobiographical accounts, readers experience how research that emerges from diverse women's lives shapes (and reshapes) educational knowledge and discourse. The book offers insights into how the field of education might change as women assume positions of intellectual leadership. The distinguished list of contributors includes Kathryn H. Au, Concha Delgado-Gaitan, Maxine Greene, Patricia J. Gumport, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Martha Montero-Sieburth, Anna Neumann, Nel Noddings, Penelope L. Peterson and Linda F. Winfield.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A remarkable collection of autobiographical accounts,
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This review is from: Learning from Our Lives: Women, Research, and Autobiography in Education (Paperback)
This book does something new. It presents 11 autobiographical chapters by prominent female educational researchers, who write about the role of educational research in their lives, and the ways in which their lives have influenced the research that they do. The accounts are moving, and reveal much of the "backstage" of the academic life. And although each author's voice is distinctive, the editors treat the chapters as "data", looking across them to show how readers can learn from the accounts. This analytic edge, and the personal nature of the accounts, distinguishes this volume from other collections of academic autobiographies. It's a wonderful book.
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POOR - no concept about the role of women in education,
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This review is from: Learning from Our Lives: Women, Research, and Autobiography in Education (Paperback)
This book is a poor substitute if you want to get a real appreciation for the sense of women in education. It's a collection of writings poorly edited. The stories are choppy and unrelated, written in a way that uses academic prose in a most unproductive way. One can only assume that the editors know little about education and the book is but a collection piece for a resume.
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