Cinderella goes to the purity ball…

This article began as an invited lecture at Assumption College in September 2011. The helpful feedback I received from my colleagues there allowed me to develop the lecture into this article in Networking Knowledge. It is hot off the presses! Enjoy! Click here to download a pdf of My article

I encourage you to examine the rest of the excellent special issue at this link: http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/index.

They really like me!

Advance praise for  my new book from Rowman & Littlefield, Wise and Foolish Virgins. Thanks to Christine, Shabana and Camille for their endorsements and support.

“A complicated argument presented with aplomb, that in what many rush to call a post-gender world, the feminized performances of teachers and teacher education ooze gender. While popular media and the mind’s eye of our own past educational experiences often reduce women teachers to a monolithic caricature, Sally Campbell Galman reminds us that wisdom comes in releasing the foolish, too-simple answers and seeking the complex contradictions of being an effective woman teacher.” —Christine Mallozzi, University of Kentucky

“Sally Galman’s book cleverly combines story, metaphor, and research to shed new light on the gendered nature of the teaching profession. This book is a provocative read for anyone interested in how gendered teaching identities are taken up and performed by white, middle-class, heterosexual females who dominate the profession.” —J. Camille Cammack, University of Massachusetts

“Sally Galman closely examines teachers through qualitative data gathered at various schools of education in a beautifully written book that both informs and entertains the educated lay reader and the scholarly critic. Elementary teacher identity emerges as twisted up in life-choices and identities that are feminine, racial, class-based, sexual, and professional. Galman seriously yet critically switches like a ‘born’ teacher among ironic humor, intense concern, and trenchant analysis. This book is an important study of teacher identity that achieves the difficult balance of rootedness in elementary teacher education as well as Goffman-framed anthropological analysis.” —Shabana Mir, Oklahoma State University

About the book:

Wise and Foolish Virgins: White Women at Work in the Feminized World of Primary School Teaching by Sally Campbell Galman asks the question, what does it mean for an entire profession to be numerically dominated by white women, and what is the relationship between teacher preparation and professional feminization? The book tells the story of three very different teacher preparation programs, explores the hopes and struggles of the mostly white, female students in those programs, and opens a window upon the closed world of teacher educators themselves who must straddle multiple worlds and multiple masters. With one foot in ancient allegory and the other in contemporary popular culture, this text addresses the complex ecologies of gender identity and negotiation between student teachers, teacher educators, and policy-makers against the politicized backdrop of pop culture “feminization” and the unique contours of homogenization in the emerging elementary teaching force.

 

“Now You See Her, Now You Don’t”: The Integration of Mothering, Spirituality, and Work

My chapter in Spirituality in Higher Education is a first foray into the world of autoethnography, guided and inspired by my wonderful editors and colleagues, Heewon Chang and Drick Boyd.  This “Momifesto” is inspired by the mothers around me in higher education and a vision of solidarity, change and room for a bassinet in every office.

Self-Study Research Methodologies for Teacher Educators

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Cynthia A. Lassonde
State University of New York College at Oneonta

Sally Galman
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Clare Kosnik (Eds.)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education – University of Toronto

Self-Study Research Methodologies for Teacher Educators is a comprehensive text that delineates a range of research methodologies. This edited volume, with many chapters written by self-study scholars who are noted in the field for particular methodological and epistemological perspectives, helps fill the gap in the literature on self-study research methods. It provides readers with an opportunity to examine various methodologies which will not only help them deepen their understanding of research but also, will allow them to select one that best suits their needs. Both new and experienced researchers will find this text valuable. We consider Self-Study Research Methodologies for Teacher Educators a valuable contribution to the field of teacher education.

Available from Sense Publishers www.sensepublishers.com