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Are you Old Enough to be in Academia? you don’t have Grey Hair

Constructions of Women in Academia

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Becoming a teacher educator is often filled with tension. In my case the tension is based on the identity of being a younger female in the academy. According to Connelly and Clandinin (1999), for a teacher, knowledge is entwined with identity. For a teacher educator, identity is interwoven with the lives and knowledge of teachers, children and youth (Clandinin, Downey, & Huber, 2009).

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  2. Monash University, Australia

    Susanne Garvis

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Garvis, S. (2014). Are you Old Enough to be in Academia? you don’t have Grey Hair. In: Lemon, N., Garvis, S. (eds) Being “In and Out”. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-830-5_3

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