Creating feminised critical spaces and co-caring communities of practice outside patriarchal managerial landscapes
Journal article
Authors | Duckworth, Vicky, Lord, Janet, Dunne, Linda, Atkins, Liz and Watmore, Sue |
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Abstract | The experiences of five female lecturers working in higher education in the UK are explored as they engage in the search for a feminized critical space as a refuge from the masculinized culture of performativity in which they feel constrained and devalued. Email exchanges were used as a form of narrative enquiry that provided opportunity and space to negotiate identities and make meaning from experiences. The exchanges provided a critical space, characterised by trust, honesty and care for the self and for each other, that enabled a sharing of authentic voices and a reaffirming of identities that were made vulnerable through the exposing of the self as an emotional, politicised subject. Drawing on existing theoretical understandings of critical feminised spaces enabled us to create a pedagogical framework for work with students in further developing caring and co-caring communities of practice that are not alternative to, but are outside the performativity landscape of education. |
Keywords | authentic voice; co-caring communities; critical space; performativity; further education; vocation; trainee teachers |
Year | 2016 |
Journal | Gender and Education |
Journal citation | 28 (7), pp. 903 - 917 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 9540253 |
13600516 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2015.1123228 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2015.1123228 |
http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623903 | |
hdl:10545/623903 | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 29 Jan 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 07 Nov 2015 |
Deposited | 21 Jun 2019 |
Contributors | Northumbria University |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9390w/creating-feminised-critical-spaces-and-co-caring-communities-of-practice-outside-patriarchal-managerial-landscapes
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