ERIC Number: EJ1487246
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0835-4944
EISSN: EISSN-1925-993X
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A Day-in-the-Life of Clandestine Women War Workers at Casa Loma: Using Feminist Fiction-Based Research to Pedagogically Peel Back Layers of Invisibility
Adrienne Kitchin; Nancy Taber
Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, v37 n1 p7-23 2025
In this article, we discuss the learning processes of our feminist fiction-based research, which makes visible the often forgotten and essentialized stories of Toronto-based women World War II workers. We describe this gendered war work through the lenses of intersectional feminism and feminist antimilitarism. We detail the power of fiction-based research as feminist methodology and pedagogy, situating it within the sphere of feminist adult education scholarship. We explain our fiction-based research study, which resulted in thematic vignettes from a day-in-the-life short story about women war workers involved in a clandestine project at Casa Loma. We conclude with implications of fiction-based research for feminist adult education.
Descriptors: Educational Research, Adult Education, Feminism, Learning Processes, Fiction, Females, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Literary Genres, War, World History, Laborers, Vignettes
Mount Saint Vincent University. e-mail: cjsaerceea@gmail.com; Web site: https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/index.php/cjsae
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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