The Author: Juliet Perumal graduated with a Ph.D. in Education from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She holds a Bachelor of Paedagogics (Arts) from the University of Durban-Westville, an Honours in Education from the University of South Africa and a Masters in Education (specialising in Language and Literature) from the University of Cape Town. She currently teaches in the Division of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include: curriculum studies, language and gender, and critical pedagogies.

«Perumal's work is important and will prove useful to educational theory in many ways. Her work provides an illustration of education in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, is a case-book example of narrative research, offers a comprehensive analysis of feminist pedagogies and language teaching, and most importantly, raises issues about feminist pedagogy and authority in a way rarely done before.» (Vikki Pollard, Gender and Education)

• Contents: Diversity Education – Critical and Cultural Literacy – Identity as Ideology: Trajectories of Feminist Identity Construction – Curriculum Studies – Exploring the Complexities of Feminist Teacher Identity – Feminist Pedagogy: a counter-hegemonic discourse – Exploring Conceptions of Identity – Multilingualism, Language and Gender – The Personal as Political and Potentially Pedagogical.

The Author: Juliet Perumal graduated with a Ph.D. in Education from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She holds a Bachelor of Paedagogics (Arts) from the University of Durban-Westville, an Honours in Education from the University of South Africa and a Masters in Education (specialising in Language and Literature) from the University of Cape Town. She currently teaches in the Division of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include: curriculum studies, language and gender, and critical pedagogies.

«Perumal's work is important and will prove useful to educational theory in many ways. Her work provides an illustration of education in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, is a case-book example of narrative research, offers a comprehensive analysis of feminist pedagogies and language teaching, and most importantly, raises issues about feminist pedagogy and authority in a way rarely done before.» (Vikki Pollard, Gender and Education)

• Contents: Diversity Education – Critical and Cultural Literacy – Identity as Ideology: Trajectories of Feminist Identity Construction – Curriculum Studies – Exploring the Complexities of Feminist Teacher Identity – Feminist Pedagogy: a counter-hegemonic discourse – Exploring Conceptions of Identity – Multilingualism, Language and Gender – The Personal as Political and Potentially Pedagogical.