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Getting There
Women's Journeys to and Through Educational Attainment
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This book chronicles the lived experience/educational journeys of women who found themselves moving forward together pursuing doctoral degrees in Educational Leadership. Grounded in the realities of womenâs lives these inspirational first-person narratives have the potential to raise awareness regarding womenâs socialization, expectations, and the role interpersonal and community connections play in the lived female experience. This book provides a potential resource for those considering how relationships and support groups impact lifeâs journey, and their importance in overcoming barriers to educational attainment and success. In her book Flux, Peggy Orenstein encourages women to share their experiences, and âtalk across lines of age and circumstanceâ (p. 292). This book does that, bringing into focus the complicated and convoluted, knotty, thorny, messy realities of womenâs lives. Seeing clearly the forest and the trees, the grass, the shrubs, and dirtâthe fully fleshed-out realities, we, as educators, can more fully and accurately see and appreciate the conflicting, competing chaos that characterizes and often monopolizes womenâs lives; and from there establish a foundation of understanding from which to begin retooling higher education to better meet the life and learning needs of all our students. âIn the endâ¦â Orenstein says, ââ¦there is no single path to a textured, satisfying life-nor should there beâ (p. 293); and indeed, as this book reveals there is not. Despite geographical and generational differences, these womenâs independent and intersecting lives created, and even today supports and sustains their ongoing connection, empowerment and achievements, and as such not only leaves a legacy for others, but a blueprint of and for hope.
Educational Researchers and their students