Becoming a community of researchers1

Poststructural action research highlights the ambiguity and uncertainty for those involved in research with other individuals. This article chronicles how such an action research group with seven young women, 15 – 18 years of age, used personal writing as a basis for exploring identity, and how the researcher and the teacher had to acknowledge and critique their own feminist agendas within such a setting. Relying on reciprocity and dialectical theory-building, the group evolved into a collective of women where new opportunities were created for all the participants.