Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education

Description

In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical perspectives can be brought into the classroom.

This book discusses the processes employed to engage learners by challenging them to ask tough questions and craft complex answers, wrestle with timely problems and posit innovative solutions, and grapple with ethical dilemmas for which they seek just resolutions. Diverse experiences, interests, and perspectives—together with the various teaching and learning styles that participants bring to twenty-first-century universities—necessitate inventive and evolving pedagogical approaches, and these are explored from a critical perspective.

The contributors collectively consider the implications of the theory/practice divide, which remains central within academic feminism’s role as both a site of social and gender justice and as a part of the academy, and map out some of the ways in which academic feminism is located within the academy today.

Sujets

• Women's studies
• Education

Informations

• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 31 juillet 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781771120975
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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FEMINIST PEDAGOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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FEMINIST PEDAGOGY critical theory and practice IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Tracy Penny Light, Jane Nicholas and Renée Bondy, editors

This book was published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humani ties and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds pro vided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Wilfrid Laurier Univer sity Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. This work was supported by the Research Support Fund.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Feminist pedagogy in higher education : critical theory and practice / Tracy Penny Light, Jane Nicholas and Renée Bondy, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 9781771121149 (pbk.).—ISBN 9781771120975 (pdf).— ISBN 9781771120982 (epub)

1. Feminism and higher education. 2. Critical pedagogy. I. Nicholas, Jane, 1977–, author, editor II. Penny Light, Tracy, 1970–, author, editor III. Bondy, Renée, 1966–, author, editor

LC197.F35 2015

370.11'5

C20159002230 C20159002249

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Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education Renée Bondy, Jane Nicholas, and Tracy Penny Light 1

one A Restorative Approach to Learning: Relational Theory as Feminist Pedagogy in Universities Kristina R. Llewellyn and Jennifer J. Llewellyn 11

two Feminist Pedagogy in the UK University Classroom: Limitations, Challenges, and Possibilities Jeannette Silva Flores 33

three Activist Feminist Pedagogies: Privileging Agency in Troubled Times Linda Briskin 57

four Classroom to Community: Reflections on Experiential Learning and Socially Just Citizenship Carm De Santis and Toni Serafini 87

VI CONTENTS

five Fat Lessons: Fatness, Bodies, and the Politics of Feminist Classroom Practice Amy Gullage 113

six Engaged Pedagogy Beyond the Lecture Hall: The Book Club as Teaching Strategy Renée Bondy 127

seven Teaching a Course on Women and Anger: Learning from College Students about Silencing and Speaking Judith A. Dorney 139

eight Beyond the Trolley Problem: Narrative Pedagogy in the Philosophy Classroom Anna Gotlib 157

nine The Power of the ImaginationIntellect in Teaching Feminist Research Susan V. Iverson 179

ten From MuzzuKummikQuae to Jeanette Corbiere Lavell and Back Again: Indigenous and Feminist Approaches to the FirstYear Course in Canadian History Katrina Srigley 197

E leven Don’t Mention the “F” Word: Using Images of Transgressive Texts to Teach Gendered History Jacqueline Z. Wilson 221

CONTENTS VII

twelve Rethinking “Students These Days”: Feminist Pedagogy and the Construction of Students J ane Nicholas and Jamilee Baroud 245

thirteen Feminist Pedagogies of Activist Compassion: Engaging the Literature and Film of Female Genital Cutting in the Undergraduate Classroom Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez 263

fourteen “I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Seen That Before!”: Feminism, the “Sexualization of Culture,” and Empowerment in the Classroom Tracy Penny Light 279

fifteen Jane Sexes It Up ... on Campus? Towards a Pedagogical Practice of Sex Maggie Labinski 293

About the Contributors 311

Index 317

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