The female faculty experience in higher education is uniquely challenging due to a variety of factors including societal expectations for women, gender bias, and gender politics. However, each female faculty member's experience is specific to their individual circumstances. Critical examination of these experiences could inform individuals and the…

This article uses an existing poem, "Árvore" (Tree in Portuguese), coupled with our diary entries, as a methodological innovation in poetic self-study. The self-study aimed to understand the aesthetic link in the development of being a teacher-researcher. This was a departure from positivist rationality and affirmation of an…

In this self-study, an education professor examines his efforts to attend to the concerns of teacher candidates concerning equity, diversity and social justice in a new School and Society course. The teacher educator asked teacher candidates complete exit cards after most classes and also read numerous teacher candidate journals and responses to…