Feminisms and Educational Research

This brief, clear text offers a selective introduction to recent feminist philosophy and theory outside educational studies. In accessible language Kohli and Burbules explain also some methodological innovations wrought by various research specialties within the postmodernist tradition that today dominates critical Anglophone education concerning class, race, sexuality, and gender. -- Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma, past president, Philosophy of Education Society and Society for Educating Women This book outlines the collaborations, theories, and practices around gender (and beyond) that shape educational research. As we increasingly turn to interdisciplinary educational research, a book like this can help sort out the implications of these sometimes divergent, sometimes productive collisions among feminisms and other critical and gender theories. Such tools can only re-energize feminist research and theory in education. -- Cris Mayo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A clearly written and perceptive discussion of the philosophical underpinnings of feminist educational inquiry. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars undertaking feminist research in education in any area. -- Kathleen Weiler, Tufts University; author of Women Teaching for Change Smart, sophisticated and definitively comprehensive, Kohli and Burbuless text moves feminist theory from an often-outsider place in educational research right into the mainstream. Research knowledge is no longer just king but now queen. Particularly significant is the centrality of education feminist theorists and researchers in this critical and current treatment. The book reminds previous generations of the need for feminist theorizing and for this generation of its continuing relevance. This is a must-read today as it will be for several decades to come. -- Lynda Stone, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; editor of The Education Feminism Reader

Wendy R. Kohli is professor of educational studies at Fairfield University. Nicholas C. Burbules is Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of educational policy, organization, and leadership studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Series Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: What is Feminism? Chapter 3: Philosophical Concerns and Commitments Chapter 4: Feminist Inquiry Chapter 5: Feminist Educational Research