To Know and To Do: The Experiences and Contributions of the First Female Academics in Programs of Educational Administration in Canada

• In Event: Roundtable Session 99
  In Roundtable Session: Women’s Leadership Experiences

Abstract

Our paper situates, contextualizes, and analyzes the interplay between the lived experiences of the first women academics whose disciplinary expertise was Educational Administration, the development of institutional practices in those Faculties of Education where these women were employed, and the construction of knowledge of the discipline of Educational Administration. The research is conceptualized using standpoint theory and uses a combination of institutional ethnography and life history research. We juxtapose the lived experiences of the first women academics with the institutional “texts” of the time in order to search for constructions of power embedded in institutional practices, and to document the role women academics played in (re)shaping the knowledge base and institutional practices of Educational Administration in Canada.

Authors

• Janice A. Wallace, University of Alberta

• Dawn C. Wallin, University of Manitoba

• Heather Syme Anderson, University of Manitoba

• Melody Viczko, University of Alberta