Womentalkin': A reader's theater performance of teachers' stories

Abstract

Grounded in feminist research methodology, the following reader's theater script seeks to represent the complex ways in which women teachers construct their life and work histories. The authors have chosen to ''represent'' their data (gathered primarily from oral history interviews and document analysis) in a way that dramatizes how women story their lives and how women teachers' narratives disrupt the monolithic master narrative typically told about teaching. Although the life histories have been collected individually, they have been orchestrated into a chorus of voices that express multiple ways of knowing and being, the whole becoming greater than the sum of its parts.