Repositioning Feminism & Education

The complex relationships of power, knowledge and teacher identity in initiating social change is documented in this text. From a multi-cultural viewpoint, the contributors explore the tensions within the process of fusing theory with political work in education. Review: This book represents an example of the potential power imbedded in scholarship freed from the unimaginative and ritualistic stodginess of conventional research protocols.

It clearly demonstrates the way in which this emerging scholarship can be both personal and intellectual; practical and conceptual. Although much of the book is situated within a feminist context, it should not be thought of as a volume just for women educators. I recommend it for preservice and inservice teachers, graduate students in education, sociology, and women studies, school administrators, and academic researchers. - Jesse Goodman Associate Professor Indiana University