Feminist empirical research : emerging perspectives on qualitative and teacher research / edited by Joanne Addison, Sharon James McGee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Addison, Joanne.

McGee, Sharon James.

Series:

CrossCurrents (Portsmouth, N.H.)

CrossCurrents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Research.

English language.

Academic writing--Study and teaching--Research.

Academic writing.

English teachers--Training of.

English teachers.

Women--Education (Higher).

Women.

Feminism and education.

Women teachers.

Academic writing--Study and teaching.

Research.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

vii, 181 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook : Heinemann, [1999]

Summary:

Despite the rise of feminist empirical research, there has been little discussion in composition studies of what it means to do this research and few guidelines for conducting it. What's needed is a forum in which novices as well as experienced feminist teachers, researchers, and theorists can meet in ways that value and inform each others' work as well as provide guidance for others.

Feminist Empirical Research is designed to introduce those who are interested in feminism, or already attempting to conduct empirical research in feminist ways, to theoretical and methodological discussions as well as practical strategies than can help not only feminist empirical researchers, but empirical researchers in general. Some of the contributors engage in research and reflect upon it by questioning its effects on their classrooms, pedagogies, and, most important, themselves and their students. Others reflect critically on writing research conducted outside of classroom settings in the same spirit. As a whole, the collection reflects a multiplicity of voices and experiences--not in an attempt to replace one dogma with another, but to position this work as a starting point for further reflective practices and, ultimately, continuing discussions.

Contents:

Part I Reflecting on Experience and Constructing the Issues 9

1 Which Me Is the Me That Got the Ph.D.?: Reflections on a Graduate Research Project / Susan Latta 9

2 Discerning Domesticities: Constructing Critical Narrative in Composition / Cheryl Forbes 24

3 My World Is Made Up of Stories: Reflections of a Feminist Teacher-Researcher / Victoria Holmsten 40

4 Teacher Action Theory: Teacher Research and Feminist Critical Theory As Partners in Liberatory Writing Pedagogy / Kathleen Parvin 53

Part II Studies in Feminist Empirical Research 72

5 Power and Gendered Discourses: Girls Learning School Writing / Judy Hunter 72

6 Beginning Adult Women Students As College Writers: A Study in the Difficulties of Dialogue / Margaret Lindgren 87

7 The Hard Work of Remembering: Memory Work as Narrative Research / Margaret S. Ewing, Adrienne E. Hyle, Judith S. Kaufman, Diane M. Montgomery, Patricia A. Self 112

8 Feminine Discourse in the University: The Writing Center Conference As a Site of Linguistic Resistance / Janet Bean 127

Part III Comment and Response 145

9 On Feminist Research: What Do Women Want (Now)?, or A Query Regarding Con/Textual Relationships / Kathleen Blake Yancey 145

10 Reflecting on Collaboration in Feminist Empirical Research: Some Cautions / Gesa E. Kirsch 158

11 Teacher Research As Knowledge Making: Dogma and Resistance / Robert P. Yagelski 163

Selected Annotated Bibliography of Feminist Research 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0867094826

OCLC:

40660113