| Author(s): | Bondy, R. Light, T. P. & Nicholas, J. |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Publication: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Citation: | Bondy, R., Light, T. P., & Nicholas, J. (2015). Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/F/Feminist-Pedagogy-in-Higher-Education. |
| Section on webpage: | Feminist Pedagogy – General |
| Tenets: | Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. 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. Examining the “why” in addition to the “what”. |
| Annotation: | 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. |