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Toso, Blaire Willson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study used a post-structural feminist framework to examine how the literacy and mothering discourses women encountered in a family literacy program assisted or constrained them in enacting agency. Employing a narrative approach, combined with other methodological strategies (ethnographic observations, discourse analysis of program…
Descriptors: Mothers, Discourse Analysis, Biographies, Family Literacy
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Gobbo, Francesca – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
The article presents the life story of a young Roma cultural mediator who narrates (1) her life and professional decisions, still rather uncommon among young Roma women, and (2) the impact of her education and work experiences and achievements on her self perception. The narratives, from which the life story emerges, express the young Roma's…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Personal Narratives, Self Concept