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The University of British Columbia
- a place of mind
- Faculty of Education
- Department of Educational Studies
My current research interests include: Anthropology of Education and Work, Disability, Gender and the Meaning of Work, Life History, Work and Identity Formation in Contemporary Complex Societies, and Collaborative and Community Research
Reid, Colleen and Allison Tom (2006). "Poor women's discourses of legitimacy, poverty, and health." Gender & Society 20(3): 402-421.
Reid, Colleen, Allison Tom & Wendy Frisby (2006). "Finding the 'action' in feminist participatory action research." Action Research 4(3): 313-330.
Tom, Allison (2004). "Good work in Canadian childcare: Complicating the love/money divide." Atlantis 29(1): 33-41.
Tom, Allison, and Carol Herbert. The "near miss": A story of relationship. Qualitative Inquiry, 2001 8(5) pp. 591-607.
Tom, Allison. "The Deliberate Relationship: A Frame for Talking about Faculty-Student Relationships." Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1997 XLIII (1) pp. 3-21.
Tom, Allison. "Challenges in Inclusive Research." Journal of Educational Thought, 1997, 31 (3) pp. 239-258.
Tom, Allison. "Building Collaborative Research: Living the Commitment to Emergent Design." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 9, No. 4, 1996, pp. 347-359.
Tom, Allison. "The Messy Work of Child Care: Addressing Feminists' Neglect of Child Care Workers." Atlantis 18, Nos. 1 & 2, 1993, pp. 70-81.
Tom, Allison, "Women's Lives Complete: Methodological Concerns." In B. Long and S. Kahn (Eds.), Coping and Working Women: An Integration. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993, pp. 32-50.
Tom, Allison, Fingeret, Hanna Arlene; Niks, Marina; Dawson, Jane; Dyer, Patricia; Harper, Lynette; Lee, Deborah; McCue, Mark & Morley, Anne. Suspended in a Web of Relationships: Collaborative Ethnographic Evaluation. Peppercorn Press: Raleigh, North Carolina, 1994, 164 pp.
Fingeret, Hanna Arlene; Tom, Allison; Niks, Marina; Dawson, Jane; Dyer, Patricia; Harper, Lynette; Lee, Deborah; McCue, Mark & Morley, Anne. Lives of Change: An Ethnographic Evaluation of Two Learner-Centred Literacy Programs. Peppercorn Press: Raleigh, North Carolina 1994, 160 pp.
