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Studying Teacher Education
A journal of self-study of teacher education practices
Volume 15, 2019 - Issue 3
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The Handmaid’s Tale: Using Literature and Online Journaling to Facilitate a Self-Study of Feminist Identity in an International Research Collective

El Cuento de la Empleada: el uso de la literatura y las bitácoras en línea para facilitar un self-study de identidad femenina en un colectivo de investigación internacional

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Pages 334-354 | Received 17 Sep 2018, Accepted 11 Feb 2019, Published online: 20 Sep 2019
 

ABSTRACT

This article explores how five international colleagues from the USA, Canada, China, and Japan use self-study methodologies and online journaling to systematically examine the tensions surrounding the lived experiences of feminist academics in diverse global contexts. It draws from the theoretical foundations of critical qualitative inquiry, self-study, feminist epistemologies, and fiction as research. The main research questions guiding the study are: what is the role of self-study and journaling in an international research collective?, how can contemporary literature inform a self-study about the intersection of gender and career?, and in what ways does journaling with international partners support personal and professional development of multicultural teacher educators?. For 6 months, the authors explored these questions with one another in an interactive online journal. Collaborative analysis of the journal entries produced three major themes: fiction as self-study, scholarship as hope, and scholarship as freedom. The article concludes with the authors’ personal views on the importance of online journaling and self-study among educational researchers who are interested in finding tools and structures for navigating the contemporary women’s movement within academia.

Este artículo explora el modo en que cinco colegas internacionales de Estados Unidos, Canada, China y Japón usaron metodologías de self-study y la escritura de diarios en línea para examinar sistemáticamente las tensiones alrededor la experiencia vivida de académicas feministas en contextos globales diversos. Se basa en los fundamentos teóricos de la indagación cualitativa crítica, epistemologías feministas y en la ficción como investigación. Las preguntas principales que guiaron el estudio son: ¿Cuál es el rol del self-study y la escritura de diarios en un colectivo de investigación internacional? ¿De qué modos la literatura contemporánea puede informar un self-study acerca de la intersección de género y carrera profesional? ¿De qué maneras la escritura de un diario con colegas internacionales fomenta el desarrollo personal y profesional de formadoras de docentes multiculturales? Durante seis meses las autoras exploraron estas preguntas de manera conjunta en un diario interactivo en línea. El análisis colaborativo de las bitácoras produjo tres temas principales: ficción como self-study, el estudio como esperanza y el estudio como libertad. El artículo concluye con las opiniones personales de las autoras acerca de la importancia de la escritura de diarios en línea y del self-study para los investigadores en educación interesados en herramientas y estructuras para navegar el movimiento conteporáneo de mujeres en la academia.

Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China under Grant number 18YJC880035; Teaching Research and Reform Project of Guangdong Higher Education under Grant number 55611014.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China [18YJC880035];Teaching Research and Reform Project of Guangdong Higher Education [55611014].

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