Creating feminized critical spaces and co-caring communities of practice outside patriarchal managerial landscapes
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.Citation
Duckworth, V., Lord, J., Dunne, L., Atkins, L. and Watmore, S., (2016) 'Creating feminised critical spaces and co-caring communities of practice outside patriarchal managerial landscapes'. Gender and Education, 28(7), pp.903-917. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2015.1123228Publisher
Taylor and FrancisJournal
Gender and EducationDOI
10.1080/09540253.2015.1123228Additional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2015.1123228Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
9540253EISSN
13600516ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/09540253.2015.1123228