Subject to Fiction: Women Teachers' Life History Narratives and the Cultural Politics of ResistanceOpen University Press, 1998 - 153 pages Situated within current feminist/poststructuralist theories regarding the subject, this book focuses on the lives of three women teachers and their narrative strategies to author themselves as active agents within and against the essentializing discourses of teaching. The text argues that the complex and contradictory ways in which these women construct themselves as subjects, while simultaneously disrupting the notion of a unitary subject, point to new ways of thinking about subjectivity, resistance, power and agency. The implications of this, alleged, reconceptualization for feminist theorizing, curriculum theory and life history research are woven throughout the book. |
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... rejection of grand narratives . Universal or absolute truths , hallmarks of humanist , Enlightenment thought are suspect . Reality is not out there but is constructed through discourse ; through language . This deconstruction includes ...
... rejection of grand narratives . Universal or absolute truths , hallmarks of humanist , Enlightenment thought are suspect . Reality is not out there but is constructed through discourse ; through language . This deconstruction includes ...
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... rejection of the technocratic ideology on which the role of the supervisor was based . In maintaining a focus on relationships and suggesting that teaching is not a ' measurable thing ' , she resists the dominant ideology of scientific ...
... rejection of the technocratic ideology on which the role of the supervisor was based . In maintaining a focus on relationships and suggesting that teaching is not a ' measurable thing ' , she resists the dominant ideology of scientific ...
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... rejection of normative femininity . Agnes exchanges the pat- tern of marriage for a life of meaningful work with students and colleagues , whom she names as her family . In rewriting the family outside the confines of the ' nuclear ...
... rejection of normative femininity . Agnes exchanges the pat- tern of marriage for a life of meaningful work with students and colleagues , whom she names as her family . In rewriting the family outside the confines of the ' nuclear ...
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impossible fictions | 1 |
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It is not what you teach but who you are | 43 |
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