I look for ways of knowing and counting knowledge that would judge....in the light of the pleasures they offer, the love they make possible, the care they provide, and the justice they observe.
Sara Ruddick, 1996
Sara Ruddick, 1996
ABOUT FRIENDSHIP: MY RESEARCH
A Rebel Band of Friends: Women’s Narratives of Friendship, Identity, and Moral Agency.
(My dissertation, 2000) Friendship is, I believe, one of life’s assignments. Friendship shaped my dissertation, based on interviews with four long-time friends in Barbados. Over a two-year period, I taped our conversations about the significance and meaning of friendship. My friends’ narratives and wise words attest to a grounding of the moral imagination in friendship, identity, and agency. Practices arising from and tested by friendship—empathy, trust, reflexivity, and narrative connection—are ways in which we may strive to understand ourselves and our world. They enable us to bring an emotional and reflective fullness into our relational, social, academic, and political lives. A Rebel Band of Friends was first runner-up in the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies’ award for Outstanding Dissertation for 2000. 
Woodcut by Wendy Donawa
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Raining Tree by Alison Chapman-Andrews
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Victoria 2000 Diploma Heritage Conservation, University of Victoria 1992 BFA, University of Victoria 1983 M.Phil., University of the West Indies 1981 Diploma of Education, University of the West Indies 1977 BA, University of the West Indies 1971 
Oxford University Press (2013)
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