UNDERSTANDING AND INVESTIGATING FEMALE FRIENDSHIPS EDUCATIVE VALUE

Understanding and Investigating Female Friendship's Educative Value Th is article presents research which suggests that college women's frien dships are learning relationships in which intellectual play and perfo rmance are risk-free and in which college women reconcile the construc ted barrier between autonomous and interdependent learning and engage in a dynamic articulation of thinking and knowing. The implications of the value and power of this relationship for higher education pedagog y, research, and practice are discussed.