In response to the recent special call in "To Improve the Academy," we offer the following collaborative essay that describes how feminism is our characterizing perspective on educational development. The essay details various, interrelated facets of feminism that inform our work in the field: gender, intersectionality, power, privilege,…

Against a backdrop of other professional arenas, including higher education, this article examines the field of educational development--who we are (mostly women) and what we do (care, service, and emotional labor)--through the lens of gender. While we suggest that educational development may provide a positive counterexample to the male dominance…

The authors explore assumptions that underlie work on organizational development in their field, which reveal hierarchical and homogenizing tendencies, despite commitments to inclusivity. Given that the aim of recent literature, such as Schroeder and Associates' Coming in from the Margins, is to situate educational developers in relation to…