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Our Bodies Tell the Story: Using Feminist Research and Friendship
to Reimagine Education and Our Lives asks (and answers) a number of
critical questions that are key to improving our educational
system. How can we use our embodied stories to navigate and disrupt
how schools and society reproduce the patriarchy and
heteronormativity within our institutions of learning? How do we
transgress oppressive boundaries (boundaries cultivated by the
patriarchy that have been perpetuated at home, within school,
outside of school, in university settings, and in communities) that
permit our dehumanization and exclusion? As teachers, professors,
and teacher educators, how do we navigate our students' trauma when
we are navigating the re-ignition of our own? This book sets out to
tell the story of how the authors have tried to answer these
questions in their lives and work. It is the story of a friendship,
a partnership, a narrative retelling of their "becoming" as girls,
teenagers, women, teachers, wives, daughters, scholars, and
mothers. From the earliest memories of their gendered and
sexualized childhoods to the present navigation of sexism,
heteronormativity, and trauma in the context of teaching and
schools, these stories reside in their bodies. They recall,
construct, and reexamine, emerging from their dialogues—from
talking face-to-face, to email, to FB messenger, poetry, and text.
Our Bodies Tell the Story centers around the co/autoethnography of
personal narratives, stories, and a kind of survival testimonies,
the ways in which the authors bore witness to each other's lives.
The book extensively uses co/autoethnography as a self-study
feminist research methodology that takes autoethnography, "a form
of self-representation that complicates cultural norms by seeing
autobiography as implicated in larger cultural processes" (Taylor
& Coia, 2006, p. 278) and moves it beyond the singular to the
plural. Using this methodology enables the authors to interweave
their stories through dialogue, so that validity, insight, and
analysis all emerge in the text. The book investigates the self
within the social context of personal relationships, as well as the
larger society. Creating a co/autoethnography is a rich,
multi-layered endeavor because it is not conducted in a vacuum. As
such, it is an important book for faculty and researchers involved
in a number of disciplines, including auto/ethnographic research,
gender studies, women's studies, feminist studies, qualitative
research and many other areas of study. Perfect for courses such
as: Gender and Education │ Public Purposes of Schooling │
Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies │ Critical
Feminisms in Teacher Education │ Gender Issues in Teacher
Education
Since it was first invented, Americans have been trying to
re-design the American high school. One of the latest approaches -
funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - is to find
inventive high school designs that work well in one location and
replicate them in other locations. The authors of this book
followed a design team from Big Picture Learning as it worked to do
exactly this, recording the challenges it faced, and the strategies
it employed. Their accessible and entertaining account of Big
Picture's work is laced with stories about 'scaling up' by other
school design teams, and in other enterprises beyond high school.
Based on careful research, the book is both a practical guide to a
new dimension of school reform, and also an interesting read for
anyone interested in school change.
Since it was first invented, Americans have been trying to
re-design the American high school. One of the latest approaches -
funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - is to find
inventive high school designs that work well in one location and
replicate them in other locations. The authors of this book
followed a design team from Big Picture Learning as it worked to do
exactly this, recording the challenges it faced, and the strategies
it employed. Their accessible and entertaining account of Big
Picture's work is laced with stories about 'scaling up' by other
school design teams, and in other enterprises beyond high school.
Based on careful research, the book is both a practical guide to a
new dimension of school reform, and also an interesting read for
anyone interested in school change.
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