Positioning ourselves in our academic lives: exploring personal/professional identities,voice and agency |
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| Authors: | Alison L Black Gail Crimmins Linda Henderson |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australiaablack1@usc.edu.au;3. School of Communication and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia;4. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, Australia |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis paper provides a rationale for understanding personal/professional identities to support personal/professional learning and positioning in academe and higher education. It explains the importance of women writing and speaking out the stories of their lives (everyday and academic), having their voices heard and responded to, and using embodied knowledge to question and challenge workplace systems and structures of power and sexism and invisibility. Importantly, this paper opens the space for women’s visibility, voice and agency in academic and educational life. |
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| Keywords: | Women in academe embodied knowledge identities feminist politics writing as research agency |
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