Changing Lives: women, inclusion and the PhD

Edited by: Barbara Ann Cole and Helen Gunter

ISBN: 9781858564616

Price: £20.99

Quantity:

200 pages
ISBN: 978 1 85856 461 6
234 x 156mm
February 2010

Heidi Safia Mirza, Penny Jane Burke, Jennifer Lavia, Gloria Gordon, Helen Gunter and Barbara Ann Cole each tells her story of completing doctoral studies at a particular personal and professional stage in her life. Their narratives reveal their experience of the resultant life changes and will speak to people who are at different stages in their own careers and studies.

By locating her story in the context in which she undertook her study, each author gives readers her reasons for embarking on such demanding study and also the historical setting which shaped her decision. This raises issues about social movements, not least post colonial thinking and gender identity in a changing world as well as their personal and professional vulnerabilities.

The interplay between personal life and living the life of academia makes these stories essential reading for anyone about to embark on academic study or who has completed it.

Changing Lives will support research activity, particularly doctoral research, and is essential reading for active researchers and professionals engaged in higher studies to consider how to locate the self productively within their projects.

Author details

Barbara Ann Cole is Senior Lecturer Inclusive Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her book about the teachers and mothers of children perceived as 'different' won the NASEN/TES award for best academic book in 2005.

Helen Gunter is Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership and Management in the School of Education, University of Manchester.

Contents

Chapter 1: New Beginnings - Ongoing Lives - Barbara Ann Cole and Helen M Gunter
Chapter 2: Accessing Doctoral Education: processes of becoming an academic - Penny Jane Burke
Chapter 3: Good vibrations: good girls, good wives, good mothers and ...good heavens a PhD! - Barbara Anne Cole
Chapter 4: Researching Life Itself: human centred passionate appreciation - Gloria Gordon
Chapter 5: Dusting off my doctorate - Helen M Gunter
Chapter 6: Teachers, Postcoloniality and the PhD - Jennifer Lavia
Chapter 7: Love in the cupboard: a conversation about success and sadness when class, race and gender collide in the making of an academic career - Heidi Safia Mirza and Kate Hoskins
Chapter 8: Beginnings and Ends - Helen M Gunter and Barbara Ann Cole

Reviews

The book's value is not only in engaging the reader with the personal biographies of six female academics? but its qualitative approaches and feminist perspectives aptly demonstrate their value in drawing out authentic snapshots of their interlinked academic and personal lives and histories. - People with Voices read the full review on the website - here

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