narrative thread become evident when one considers the impact that the project has on one's sensibilities. The beauty of Seeing Red is its ability to invite conversation (and argument) as much as it is to provide an alternative way of thinking about educational scholarship.
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Dr. J. Gary Knowles
Professor of Creative Inquiry and Adult Learning
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
of the University of Toronto
Finding Voice, Finding Form
How did Pauline come to find the heart of this work - the story of Julia and her academic supervisor - amid the routines of working in schools and with young children? How did she find her way through the labyrinth of places called classrooms and schools and universities where conformity rules the day, day after day? How did she come to this work amid the busyness of family and work? How did she learn not to conform to the pressures of traditional inquiry and the templates of scholarship?
As a man living in the world of the academy the concept of form is important in my life. My interests in form permeate my thinking about the natural world, the atmosphere, the built environment, the places I dwell, the clothes I wear, that which I choose to read. I have some sense as to how I came to think this way. Working in architecture taught me an enduring principle (passé in some circles), simple in its articulation, powerful in its influence. Form follows function. I know this in my heart.
But how did Pauline come to break out of the mold? What is the source for her vision about the possibilities of how scholarship