ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates especially the way Diane's and Catherine's viewed the group as contributing to educational research. It also describes how they designed the Network Faculty Development Committee (NFDC) in order to accomplish their aim and describe some of the practical considerations involved in getting the NFDC started. During the first year of the NFDC, Catherine and Diane articulated their ideas formally in a presentation given at a meeting of the American Educational Research Association. They designed two aspects of the NFDC explicitly, and another came about as a result of the joint insider-outsider research design. The two aspects they designed were the leadership style they would take and the sharing of narratives at the beginning of the NFDC meetings. Peggy Macintosh said that some feminists were thinking in new ways about women and leadership, and she suggested that Diane and Catherine might consider serving as leaders for a stipulated time in order to model collaborative processes.
