Sue Middleton (born 1947) is a retired

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academic who spent her career at the

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focused on life histories.

Career

After a 1979 MSc thesis, ''A phenomenological perspective for the classroom teacher and its application to the education of women'' at

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and a 1985

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dissertation ''Feminism and education in post-war New Zealand: a sociological analysis '' at

, New Zealand, Middleton joined the faculty. From 2000 to 2006 Middleton was director of the

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. In 2013, Middleton was awarded

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by the University of Waikato. Middleton is credited for pioneering New Zealand's first studies centred around "women and education icand education and sexuality." In 2019, Middleton and

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co-edited ''For Women and Children: a tribute to Geraldine McDonald'', a collection of writings in honour of the life and work of researcher

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. Notable students of Middleton include Elizabeth McKinley and Katie Fitzpatrick.

Selected works

* Middleton, Sue. Educating feminists: Life histories and pedagogy. Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027., 1993. * Middleton, Sue. "Disciplining sexuality: Foucault, life histories, and education." (1998). * Weiler, Kathleen, and Sue Middleton. "Telling women's lives: Narrative inquiries in the history of women's education."

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47, no. 3 (1999). * Middleton, Sue. "Developing a radical pedagogy: Autobiography of a New Zealand sociologist of women’s education." In Studying teachers' lives, pp. 30-62. Routledge, 2013. * Middleton, Sue.

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and education: Space, history, theory. Routledge, 2013. * Middleton, Sue, and

. "Teachers Talk Teaching, 1915-1995 Early Childhood, Schools and Teachers' Colleges." (1997). * Middleton, Sue, and

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, eds. Women and education in Aotearoa. Vol. 2. Auckland University Press, 1997. * Middleton, Sue, John A. Codd, and

, eds. New Zealand education policy today: Critical perspectives. Allen & Unwin, 1990.

Awards

*Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, February 2013. *Two Visiting Fellowships, Dept of Education Foundations & Policy Studies, London Institute of Education: October–December 2009; November 2010. *NZARE McKenzie Award for Educational Research, (a lifetime achievement award), New Zealand Association for Research in Education, 2003. *

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Critics’ Choice Award for book: Middleton, S. (1993) ''Educating feminists: Life-histories and pedagogy''. New York: Teachers’ College Press,

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. *Fulbright-Hayes Travel Award ''(Senior Scholar)'' to visit US universities and to do research on 'the sociology of women's education', 1991.

References

External links

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Sue Middleton on Researchgate
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