Learning from Our Lives: Women, Research, and Autobiography in Education

By: Neumann, Anna

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807735930
• ISBN13: 9780807735930
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A remarkable collection of autobiographical accounts

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.