Critiquing the Rhetoric of "Safety" in Feminist Pedagogy: Women of Color Offering an Account of Ourselves

Autor/inn/en	Kishimoto, Kyoko; Mwangi, Mumbi
Titel	Critiquing the Rhetoric of "Safety" in Feminist Pedagogy: Women of Color Offering an Account of Ourselves
Quelle	In: Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 19 (2009) 2, S.87-102 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0882-4843
Schlagwörter	Social Science Research; Feminism; Womens Studies; Identification; Educational Practices; Rhetoric; Safety; Women Faculty; Racial Differences; Ethnic Groups; Classroom Environment; Females; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Feminismus; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Bildungspraxis; Rhetorik; Sicherheit; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Rassenunterschied; Ethnie; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Weibliches Geschlecht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	With its emphasis on empowering students' voices and valuing experiential knowledge, and on collaborating and creating community, feminist pedagogy has long been understood as integral to the field of women's studies. Feminist theories and practices inform how educators teach within a feminist classroom. Very little research has been done, however, to illuminate the challenges of embodying feminist pedagogical practices that address the locationality and subjective positions of women faculty of color. In this paper, the authors critique the rhetoric of safety in feminist pedagogy. They use their own lived experiences and perceptions of safety, or lack of it, to disrupt and interrogate ways in which the hegemonic power of the dominant discourse in academic culture in general, and feminist pedagogy in particular, is embedded in constructing, naming, and defining feminist teaching and classroom environments. The authors argue that as women of color, they teach vulnerably based on their subjective identities, which play a major role in how they navigate through the pedagogical practices in the classroom. They demonstrate through their own experiences that the lived realities of women of color in academia are essential to how they teach as women of color, and how they can make invaluable contributions to conventional and feminist pedagogical discourses. (Contains 4 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10