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Preface / Fritz Moser and Lauren Jones Young -- Introduction / Edward H. Haertel, Pamela A. Moss, Diana C. Pullin, and James Paul Gee -- Assessment through the lens of "opportunity to learn" / Diana C. Pullin and Edward H. Haertel -- A sociological perspective on opportunity to learn and assessment / Hugh Mehan -- A sociocultural perspective on opportunity to learn / James Paul Gee -- Individualizing assessment and opportunity to learn: lessons from the education of students with disabilities / Diana C. Pullin -- Cultural modeling as opportunity to learn: making problem solving explicit in culturally robust classrooms and implications for assessment / Carol D. Lee -- Opportunities to learn in practice and identity / James G. Greeno and Melissa S. Gresalfi -- Game-like learning: an example of situated learning and implications for opportunity to learn / James Paul Gee -- Sociocultural implications for assessment I: classroom assessment / Pamela A. Moss -- Issues of structure and issues of scale in assessment from a situative/sociocultural perspective / Robert J. Mislevy -- Sociocultural implications for assessment II: professional learning, evaluation, and accountability / Pamela A. Moss, Brian J. Girard, and James G. Greeno -- Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn / Diana C. Pullin.

ABSTRACT In this paper, the social being in the spatiality of the production process is addressed. Spatiality, following Soja (1989), means the ceaseless and recursive dialectical interplay amongst time, space, and the social being. The production process, as a specific set of social relations, comprises both the tasks associated with productive labor and the regulations that organize the extraction of surplus value. The social being as worker is located within the various sets of power relations in the workplace, and workers as social beings position themselves within and amongst the numerous sets of social relations that are part of the production process. Distributions of power are negotiated through labor and mediated by other sets of social relations in specific places as well as the historical and material conditions of the lives of individual workers and their employment at a firm. This conceptual argument is demonstrated by drawing on information gathered in multiple‐depth interviews with women employed as franchise housekeepers, personal experience as a franchise housekeeper, and structured interviews with managers, owners, and head office personnel in housekeeping services franchises.

Personal experiences as a maid in a franchise housekeeping services firm revealed distinct microspatial shifts in the possession & expression of specific conceptions of gender in the workplace. It was found that the women's responses & action were spatially differentiated, resulting in conflict & discord, as well as community & concord. Explored here are some ideological aspects of a spatial conceptualization -- workplace. After first laying an analytical foundation in classical Marxism, a feminist critique & analysis are presented by outlining implications of an articulation of gender & class relations in the workplace within the (re)production of a hegemonic gender ideology. It is argued that gender needs to be conceptualized as a set of concrete processes that are (re)connected through context. Concluding comments are offered on the usefulness of microspatial studies of gender in the workplace within the more widely cast social urban environment. AA

"Intimacy, expressed through the feelings and sensations of the researcher, is bound up in the work of a feminist geographer. Tapping into this intimacy and including it in academic writing facilitates a grasping of the effects of power in particular places and initiates a discussion about how to access and tease out what constitutes the intimate both ethically and politically throughout the research process. This collection provides valuable reflections about intimacy in the research process -- from encounters in the field, through data analysis, to the various pieces of written work. A global and heterogeneous pool of scholars and researchers introduce personal ways of writing intimacy into feminist geography. Authors expand existing conceptualizations of intimacy and include their own stories as their chapters explore the methodological challenges of using intimacy in research as an approach, a topic and a site of interaction. The book is valuable reading for students and researchers of Geography, as well as anyone interested in the ethics and practicalities of feminist, critical and emotional research methodologies."--Provided by publisher.