Subject to Fiction (Feminist Educational Thinking Series) - Softcover

Munro, Petra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335200788 ISBN 13: 9780335200788

Publisher: Open University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Subject to Fiction Drawing on the life histories of three teachers, this book explores their narrative strategies to author themselves as active agents within and against the essentializing discourses of teaching. It also covers the implications of this reconceptualization for feminist theorizing, curriculum theory, and life history research. Full description

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Synopsis

Drawing on the life histories of three teachers, this book explores their narrative strategies to author themselves as active agents within and against the essentializing discourses of teaching. The complex and contradictory ways in which these women construct themselves as subjects, while simultaneously disrupting the notion of a unitary subject, provide new ways to think about subjectivity, resistance, power and agency. The implications of this reconceptualization for feminist theorizing, curriculum theory and life history research are woven throughout the book.

About the Author

Petra Munro is an Associate Professor of Education at Louisiana State University. Informed by a feminist/poststructuralist perspective, her research interests focus on the narrative analysis of curriculum history, women's life histories and the discourses of qualitative methodology. She has co-authored Repositioning Feminism and Education: Perspectives on Education for Social Change. At the moment she is completing her book Engendering Curriculum History.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0335200788
• ISBN 13: 9780335200788
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176