Women’s Studies Online: Cyberfeminism or Cyberhype?

Author(s): Schweitzer, I.
Date: 2001
Publication: Women’s Studies Quarterly
Citation: Schweitzer, I. (2001). Women’s Studies Online: Cyberfeminism or Cyberhype?. Women’s Studies Quarterly 29(3), 187–217. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40003753.
Section on webpage: Feminist Pedagogy – Online
Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Examining the “why” in addition to the “what”. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning.
Annotation: “Schweitzer believes that Web technology constitutes the greatest opportunity for feminism and progressive politics in the new century. With certain very important caveats, Web technology and Web-related teaching have the potential to actualize some of the basic goals of feminism and feminist pedagogy.”

 

Freire and a Feminist Pedagogy of Difference

Author(s): Weiler, K.
Date: 1991
Publication: Harvard Educational Review
Citation: Weiler, Kathleen. (1991). Freire and a Feminist Pedagogy of Difference. Harvard Educational Review. 1 December 1991; 61 (4): 449–475. doi: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.61.4.a102265jl68rju84.
Section on webpage: Feminist Pedagogy – Online
Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Presenting knowledge as constructed. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches. Examining the “why” in addition to the “what”.
Annotation: Educator Kathleen Weiler deconstructs Western knowledge systems using a feminist lens. In this work she references Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator and philosopher, who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. By using her feminist lens, she is able to add a bit more breadth to Freire’s pedagogy. Her critiques are broken down into three sections: questioning of authority, personal experience as a source of knowledge, and exploration of the perspectives of a wider range of demographics.

 

Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice

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.

 

Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward

Author(s): Crabtree, R. Sapp, D. A. & Licona, A. C.
Date: 2009
Publication: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Citation: Crabtree, R., Sapp, D. A., & Licona, A. C. (2009). Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward. The Johns Hopkins University Press. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/feminist-pedagogy.
Section on webpage: Feminist Pedagogy – General
Tenets: Promoting reflexivity. 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. Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining the “why” in addition to the “what”.
Annotation: This collection of essays traces the evolution of feminist pedagogy over the past twenty years, exploring both its theoretical and its practical dimensions. Feminist pedagogy is defined as a set of epistemological assumptions, teaching strategies, approaches to content, classroom practices, and teacher-student relationships grounded in feminist theory. To apply this philosophy in the classroom, the editors maintain that feminist scholars must critically engage in dialogue and reflection about both what and how they teach, as well as how who they are affects how they teach. In identifying the themes and tensions within the field and in questioning why feminist pedagogy is particularly challenging in some educational environments, these articles illustrate how and why feminist theory is practiced in all kinds of classrooms. In exploring feminist pedagogy in all its complexities, the contributors identify the practical applications of feminist theory in teaching practices, classroom dynamics, and student-teacher relationships. This volume will help readers develop theoretically grounded classroom practices informed by the advice and experience of fellow practitioners and feminist scholars.

 

“Why Faculty Members Need to Explain Feminist Pedagogy”

Author(s): Nowik, C.
Date: 2018
Publication: Inside Higher Ed
Citation: Nowik, C. (2018). “Why Faculty Members Need to Explain Feminist Pedagogy,” Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2018/10/05/why-faculty-members-need-explain-feminist-pedagogy-opinion.
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: Discusses how feminist pedagogy drives Nowik’s decision making: “Three primary assumptions underpin my teaching: 1) that a power structure promoting agency and collective responsibility is the best environment for learning, 2) that community development is essential to individual growth and development in the writing classroom, and 3) that the development of good thinking is essential to liberty.”

 

Introduction Critical Community Engagement: Feminist Pedagogy Meets Civic Engagement

Author(s): Costa, L. M. & Leong, K. J.
Date: 2012
Publication: Feminist Teacher
Citation: Costa, L. M., & Leong, K. J. (2012). Introduction Critical Community Engagement: Feminist Pedagogy Meets Civic Engagement. Feminist Teacher, 22(3), 171–180. https://doi.org/10.5406/femteacher.22.3.0171
Section on webpage: Feminist Pedagogy – Online
Tenets: Connecting to the personal and to communities outside of academia. Promoting reflexivity. Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. 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”. Cultivating self-care and boundaries.
Annotation: Exploration of how civic engagement has remained a contested topic among feminist academics. The work goes on to discuss how civic engagement has always been a part of Women and Gender Studies’ (WGS) academics work, but how it is often discredited due to the fact that it gets labeled as “activism.” The paper then goes on to demonstrate the critical approach that WGS scholars bring to their pedagogies, emphasizing their credibility. It then goes on to identify the themes that have been emerging in WGS scholar’s conversations surrounding civic engagement and the dynamics of entering the national civic engagement movement on terms other than their own.

 

Access as Pedagogy: A Case for Embracing Feminist Pedagogy in Open and Distance Learning

Author(s): Koseoglu, S.
Date: 2020
Publication: Asian Journal Distance Education
Citation: Koseoglu, S. (2020). Access as Pedagogy: A Case for Embracing Feminist Pedagogy in Open and Distance Learning. Asian Journal Distance Education, 15(1), 277–90. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3893260.
Section on webpage: Feminist Pedagogy – Online
Tenets: Promoting reflexivity. Promoting cooperative learning. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Examining the “why” in addition to the “what”. 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.
Annotation: In this article, the author argues for a greater embracing of feminist pedagogy in distance education. She states that she views “feminist pedagogy as an ethical position as well as a pedagogical position that calls attentive ways of looking into structuring educational services, methods, policies, and legislations that create an inclusive learning space not just for women, but for all students who are disadvantaged in their education. Within this context, student participation can be framed as a means for transformation, contributing to one’s well-being, agency and sense of power.”

 

Scavenger Hunts & Photo essays: Helping students see inequality in the world around them through Project-Based Learning

Author(s): Cabaniss, E. & Parrotta, K.
Date: 4/13/2022
Publication: DigitalCommons@CalPoly
Citation: Cabaniss, E., & Parrotta, K. (2022, April 13). Scavenger Hunts & Photo essays: Helping students see inequality in the world around them through Project-Based Learning. DigitalCommons@CalPoly. Retrieved February 28, 2023, from https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/vol2/iss2/2/
Section on webpage: Feminist Pedagogy – Online
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”.
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