INTRODUCING A GENRE OF CRITICAL SIGNIFICANCE: TWO PACIFIC WOMEN TEACHERS
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Learning from women teachers ' stories: A regenerative praxis Women teachers ' personal (life history) narratives or "stories " are essential primary documents, and these documents do not exist for Fiji, as in many other parts of the South Pacific, or for the rest of the world.1 One reason for this may be that women teachers telling, and sharing with other women and girls, stories about their lives and, more specifically, about how they have come to be teachers, is not seen as a particularly "heroic " practice or an exemplary "communicative " act. In Fiji, as in Nepal, Kedrayate and Schulz have discovered what Casey found in the United States, that is, the narratives of women teachers who have "authored " their own lives in significant ways, and [who] have written the social script for themselves and for others...document the enormous obstacles which contemporary women must overcome to establish t
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Learning from women teachers ' stories: A regenerative praxis Women teachers ' personal (life history) narratives or "stories " are essential primary documents, and these documents do not exist for Fiji, as in many other parts of the South Pacific, or for the rest of the world.1 One reason for this may be that women teachers telling, and sharing with other women and girls, stories about their lives and, more specifically, about how they have come to be teachers, is not seen as a particularly "heroic " practice or an exemplary "communicative " act. In Fiji, as in Nepal, Kedrayate and Schulz have discovered what Casey found in the United States, that is, the narratives of women teachers who have "authored " their own lives in significant ways, and [who] have written the social script for themselves and for others...document the enormous obstacles which contemporary women must overcome to establish t
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