Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice

by Tracy Penny Light (Editor), Jane Nicholas (Editor), Ren e Bondy (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771121149
Publisher:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date:	08/17/2015
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Tracy Penny Light is the executive director of the Centre for Student Engagement and Learning Innovation at Thompson Rivers University, Canada. Recent publications include, Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800–2000 with Wendy Mitchinson and Barbara Brookes, and “Fifty Shades of Complexity: Exploring Technologically Mediated Leisure and Women’s Sexuality” with Diana C. Parry.

Jane Nicholas is an associate professor in the Department of Sexuality, Marriage and Family Studies at St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of The Modern Girl: Feminine Modernities, The Body, and Consumer Cul-ture in the 1920s (2015) and the co-editor, with Patrizia Gentile, of Contesting Body and Nation in Canadian History (2013).

Renée Bondy teaches in the Women and Gender Studies program at the University of Windsor. A Canadian historian by training, her writing for the popular press explores topics in women’s history, food culture, and spirituality. She is a regular contributor to the Canadian feminist magazine Herizons.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents for
Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice, edited by Tracy Penny Light, Jane Nicholas, and Renée Bondy

Acknowledgements

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

1. A Restorative Approach to Learning: Relational Theory as Feminist Pedagogy in Universities | Kristina Llewellyn and Jennifer Llewellyn

2. Feminist Pedagogy in the UK Classroom: Limitations, Challenges, and Possibilities | Jeannette Silva Flores

3. Activist Feminist Pedagogies: Privileging Agency in Troubled Times | Linda Briskin

4. Classroom to Community: Reflections on Experiential Learning and Socially Just Citizenship | Carm De Santis and Toni Serafini

5. Fat Lessons: Fatness, Bodies, and the Politics of Feminist Classroom Practice | Amy Gullage

6. Engaged Pedagogy Beyond the Lecture Hall: The Book Club as Teaching Strategy | Renée Bondy

7. Teaching a Course on Women and Anger: Learning From College Students about Silencing and Speaking | Judith A. Dorney

8. Beyond the Trolley Problem: Narrative Pedagogy in the Philosophy Classroom | Anna Gotlib

9. The Power of the Imagination-Intellect in Teaching Feminist Research | Susan V. Iverson

10. 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

11. Don't Mention the “F” Word: Using Images of Transgressive Texts to Teach Gendered History | Jacqueline Z. Wilson

12. Rethinking “Students These Days”: Feminist Pedagogy and the Construction of Students | Jane Nicholas and Jamilee Baroud

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

14. “I Can't Believe I've Never Seen That Before!”: Feminism, the “Sexualization of Culture,” and Empowerment in the Classroom | Tracy Penny Light

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