Palestinian-Israeli middle-class mothers enjoy advantages of the middle-class yet belong to a geographically and socially marginalized minority. This paper examines how they educate their children in and about this socio-spatial reality. Building on the concept of spatial literacy developed through ethnographic research with Palestinian-Israeli women university-students, we analyze interview-data on mothering and education with the same population. These mothers use scaffolding strategies to teach children to read socio-spatial relations. The study contributes to geographies of parenting by elucidating how parent-child relationships can be a context for learning about socio-spatial relations.

This ethnographic case study analyzed the group culture of an activist women?s organization. Drawing on feminist theory, dramaturgical theory, and critical regionalism, this study sought the images of feminism and female leadership within the Appalachian narrative that were crafted by female activists and leaders. This study analyzed elements of group culture including feminism as well as educational practice. Data were collected through the group meetings and events as well in-depth individual interviews and then transcribed. Data were descriptively coded in order to establish the feminist portion of the Appalachian narrative, the images of feminism in the story of Appalachia.

Women in India are disproportionately denied access to educational opportunities. In response, women?s organizations have emerged to support women in educating themselves and each other through formal and informal systems. This study-in-progress examines two systems organized by/for women waste-pickers and political leaders. Using an emergent design approach, it explores the network-building and knowledge-sharing processes involved in fostering personal, professional, and collective growth to generate case profiles of women whose lives/communities are transformed by participation in these systems, with the goal of facilitating knowledge and resource exchange across groups and, ultimately, cultivating similar groups across India.