TY - JOUR
AU - Weiler, Kathleen
AB - QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION, 1992, VOL. 5, NO. 1, 39-50 Remembering and representing life choices: a critical perspective on teachers' oral history narratives KATHLEEN WEILER Tufts University We wanted to break down the opposition between the imaginary and the real, and to show for personal life narratives as for anywhere else, that no statement that is made about one's past individually, is in any way innocent of ideology or of imaginative complexes. We wanted to break down the differences between the public and the private, and the personal and the political, by showing that the same kinds of imaginative paradigms which structure ideology and which structure politics, also structure the ways in which people understand their own lives. Samuel (1988, p. 15) Focusing on the construction of subjectivity, especially the contradictions individuals are unable or unwilling to repress, feminists have used the "ba d fit" of imposed social roles as an impetus for social transformation. Frieden (1989,p. 172) Critical and feminist research in education has taken some unexpected turns in the late 1980s and early 1990s, raising questions and suggesting dieoretical new directions for research in a number of fields (see Britzman, 1991; Ladier, 1991). In this paper I 
TI - Remembering and representing life choices: a critical perspective on teachers’ oral history narratives
JF - International Journal of Qualititative Studies in Education
DO - 10.1080/0951839920050106
DA - 1992-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/remembering-and-representing-life-choices-a-critical-perspective-on-cBu3I15TQB
SP - 39
EP - 50
VL - 5
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -