ABSTRACT
This volume offers both theoretical and research-based accounts from mothers in academia who must balance their own intricate knowledge of school systems, curriculum and pedagogy with their children’s education and school lives. It explores the contextual advantages and disadvantages of "knowing too much" and how this impacts children’s actions, scholastics and developing consciousness along various lines. Additionally, it allows teachers, administrators and researchers to critically examine their own discourses and those of their students to better navigate their professional and domestic roles.
Gathering narratives from academic women in traditional and nontraditional maternal roles, this volume presents both contemporary and retrospective experiences of what it’s like to raise children amidst educational and sociocultural change.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|57 pages
Insider/Outsider
chapter 4|17 pages
Reconfiguring Motherhoods
part Section II|69 pages
Place and Finding Belonging
chapter 5|16 pages
The Utmost for Our Children
chapter 6|10 pages
“Mommy, will you die today when you go to work?”
chapter 7|12 pages
A Vision for Our Children's Education
part Section III|59 pages
Activism, Advocacy, and Space