A Feminist Teacher's Account of Her Attempts to Achieve the Goals of Feminist Pedagogy

Autor/in	McCusker, Geraldine
Titel	A Feminist Teacher's Account of Her Attempts to Achieve the Goals of Feminist Pedagogy
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 29 (2017) 4, S.445-460 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2017.1290220
Schlagwörter	Critical Thinking; Teaching Methods; Feminism; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Social Justice; Graduate Study; Social Work; Counselor Training; Neoliberalism; Student Recruitment; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Counselor Educators; Graduate Students; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritisches Denken; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Feminismus; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Soziale Arbeit; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Studentin; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper aims to interrogate some of the processes and tensions I faced in establishing a feminist space in a higher education institution in the UK context. The students I worked with needed to develop an understanding of social justice concepts such as anti-discrimination and anti-oppression in order to progress from their undergraduate studies to a postgraduate professional qualification in social work. It was my contention that a feminist lens could support this understanding. The feminist space we established was informed by work in the field of feminist pedagogy, which supports the development of critical thinking that goes beyond the immediate learning context. Feminist pedagogy brings many rewards but also challenges and tensions, some of which I will explore in the paper. I will focus here on my efforts to establish and maintain this space, discussing what was achieved, and exploring the tensions involved when doing this in a neoliberal context, which as a depoliticised context, is a challenge to, and is challenged by, critical perspectives such as feminism. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01