This guide provides resources about integrating feminist pedagogy and technology into online, hybrid, and traditional undergraduate courses. The editors specifically designed the guide to support interdisciplinary topics and fields and to focus on active learning practices in social sciences, the liberal arts, the humanities, and STEM subjects. As the editors design and curate this guide, they keep the feminist pedagogy tenets (listed below) in mind.
In the context of this guide, “online” refers to synchronous and asynchronous online education strategies, as well as any time digital and data tools are used in hybrid and in-person classrooms. Though the guide was created to inform online modalities, over time, the editors have expanded their definition of online education to support more educators who are facing new modern demands and challenges while using digital tools across all classroom modalities.
Feminist Pedagogical Tenets
Connecting to the personal and to communities outside of academia. |
Promoting reflexivity. |
Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive). |
Treating students as agentic co-educators. |
Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. |
Promoting cooperative learning. |
Presenting knowledge as constructed. |
Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. |
Uncovering the causes of inequality and leveraging resources toward undoing power structures. |
Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches. |
Considering alternative histories and narratives. |
Examining the “why” in addition to the “what”. |
Cultivating self-care and boundaries. |
Feminist Pedagogy in the Online Environment
Humanizing online teaching/learning. |
Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. |
Examining (dis)embodiment in virtual teaching/learning. |
Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning. |
History
The Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online Guide came about in August 2020, when in response to COVID-19, Dr. Jacquelyne Thoni Howard and Dr. Clare Daniel were asked to co-chair an online teaching committee to support their colleagues at Newcomb Institute of Tulane University in transferring their shared feminist teaching philosophies to online settings. Using their previous experience in teaching and designing online courses, Daniel and Howard curated the guide to provide their colleagues with a one-stop resource for implementing feminist teaching practices in their online and hybrid courses.
In a matter of days, and after being shared widely on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, the guide reached 6,500 views, indicating a widespread interest among higher education instructors, across a range of fields, in its practical and purposeful presentations of feminist pedagogy online. The sharing of the guide also sparked an opportunity for Daniel and Howard to collaborate with Niya Bond, whose articles about feminist pedagogy had been featured on the guide. In February 2021, the guide moved to a new permanent website and continues to grow as a resource and hub of collaboration. In March 2021, we invited two new co-curators to help shape future directions of this project, Dr. Enilda Romero-Hall and Dr. Liv Newman. In 2021, Women in Higher Education featured the guide in their newsletter. In 2023, the guide won the Open Scholarship Award by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute. In November of 2024, an edited collection titled Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online will be published by the Athabasca University Press.
Our Community
Editors
Clare Daniel, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
Newcomb Institute
Tulane University
Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
Connolly Alexander Institute
for Data Science
Tulane University
Liv Newman, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching
Tulane University
Niya Bond, M.A.
Managing Editor
Faculty and Learning Production Manager
StraighterLine
Enilda Romero-Hall, Ph.D.
Advising Editor
Learning, Design, and Technology
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Assignment and Article Contributors
Charity Anderson, Ph.D.
Rachel Blume
Liz Bolton
Audrey Coble
Delcenia Cosman
Tiffany Jasmin González, Ph.D.
Nirnoy H. Islam
Rocío Jiménez-Cortés
Tara Knight
Michelle Miller, PhD, MFA, M.Ed
Nora McIntyre
Courtney Plotts, Ph.D.
Marta Pulley, MS-IDT
Diana Saverin
Sarah Stanley
Digital Collaborators
Technical Consultants
Ed Beck, Open & Online Learning Specialist, SUNY Oneonta
Aisha Champagne, Newcomb Institute Graphic Designer
Student Interns
Aaliyah Randall, Newcomb Institute, Digital Research Intern
Emma De Leon, Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science, Data Research Intern
Emily O’Connell, Newcomb Institute, Digital Research Intern
Hannah Kline Bartels, Newcomb Institute, Digital Research Intern
Madeline Nellis, Newcomb Institute, Information Technology Intern
Naomi Stoner, Newcomb Institute, Information Technology Intern
Rachel Tabor, Newcomb Institute, Graduate Assistant
Sam DeMarinis, Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science / Newcomb Institute, Digital Research Intern
Sophie Tanen, Newcomb Institute, Information Technology Intern
Tess Kleanthous, Newcomb Institute, Digital Research Intern
Zoe Oboler, Newcomb Institute, Digital Research Intern
Our Scholarship, Media Coverage & Awards
FPTO Receives the 2024 Open Scholarship Award
Canadian Social Knowledge Institute
2024
The Promise of Pedagogical Play
Niya Bond and Todd Zakrajsek
Inside Higher Ed
March 29, 2023
An Introduction to the Digital Guide: Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online
Clare Daniel, Liv Newman, Jacquelyne Thoni Howard
Forodonna Conference Keynote Event
March 17, 2023
The Future of Faculty Development Is Feminist
Niya Bond
Inside Higher Ed
April 15, 2022
Using Collaborative Research and Open-Source Methods to Promote Feminist Pedagogy During a Pandemic
Jacquelyne Thoni Howard
Pandemic Methodologies
Candian Historical Association
June 24, 2021
The Uses of Feminist Pedagogy Before, During, and After the Pandemic
Clare Daniel
Faculty Focus
May 3, 2021
How to Embrace Feminist Pedagogies in Your Courses
Enilda Romero-Hall
Association for Educational
Communications & Technologies
April 15, 2021
Feminist Approach
Katie Small
Tulanian:
The Magazine of Tulane University
Spring 2021
A New Guide Focuses on Online Feminist Pedagogy
Mary Lou Santovec
Women in Higher Education
Spring 2021
Newcomb Institute Releases a Guide to Feminist Teaching
Maya Schioppo
Tulane News
September 30, 2020