Paraplegic women’s emancipation along their vocational pathways: the potential contributions of Freirean, structural and post-structural feminist pedagogies

We have recently completed doctoral research on the reconstruction of paraplegic men’s and women’s vocational trajectories in French-speaking Switzerland. Based three female informants’ life narratives, we analyse issues gendered guidance, pathways identities people’s courses. shape some emancipating experience models discourses about action, which empower informants their pathways. Our objective is here to point potential support that an emancipatory, feminist pedagogical approach could offer women further development personal models, self conduct educational life.