The New Brunswick Women’s Institute: exploring diversity in women’s learning experiences

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dc.contributor.advisorWhite, Melissa
dc.contributor.authorStella, Katheryn
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T16:40:07Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T16:40:07Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2020-06-17T00:00:00Z
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this research was to explore the learning experiences of women from the New Brunswick Women’s Institute (NBWI) organization, to better understand if their learning is more complex than the harmonious and collaborative nature that is represented in the literature. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted on six NBWI members within a narrative inquiry methodological design. The findings were analyzed using discourse analysis from a feminist poststructuralist and Foucauldian lens. Four dominant discourses emerged as a result: cost-containing discourses, neoliberal discourses, resistances and contradictions to dominant discourses, and adult educative discourses. I explored how these discourses are politically and economically imbedded to produce and reproduce knowledge and conformity. Visible in the findings were practices of rival discourses that challenged and resisted the dominant practices that had once silenced and subjugated participants’ voices.
dc.description.copyright© Katheryn (Katie) Stella, 2016
dc.description.noteM.Ed. University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Education, 2016.
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dc.format.extentvii, 174 pages
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.oclc#1158540060
dc.identifier.otherThesis 9815
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/14299
dc.language.isoen_CA
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineEducation
dc.subject.lcshExperiential learning--Case studies--Women.
dc.subject.lcshDiscourse analysis--New Brunswick--Cost control.
dc.subject.lcshDiscourse analysis--New Brunswick--Neoliberalism.
dc.subject.lcshNew Brunswick Women's Institute.
dc.titleThe New Brunswick Women’s Institute: exploring diversity in women’s learning experiences
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thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.fullnameMaster of Education
thesis.degree.fullnameMaster of Education in Adult Education Studies
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.Ed.
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Education in Adult Education Studies

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