[Englecturers] FW: Feminist Pedagogy (3/1/06; journal issue)

[Steven Axelrod]

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Subject: CFP: Feminist Pedagogy (3/1/06; journal issue)


Submissions are requested for a special issue of the journal Feminist
Teacher entitled, The Feminist Gap: Ideology and Practice in Higher
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As teaching academics, we are aware of a gap between ourselves and our
students in reading the terms of feminism. Added to the gaps - economic,
cultural, sexual - that we have been involved in exploring over the past two
decades is a gap which we are driven to understand as
historical/generational.  In reality, we feel that this gap is primarily
ideological, in the sense that student understandings of 'feminism' (as a
term) seem increasingly to be derived from particular popular culture
sources which ultimately support pre-feminist ideas of the natural. Thus
feminism, as Angela McRobbie has pointed out, has become an increasingly
historicised category separate from students' ideas about their own gender
politics.  Convictions about gender which our students hold are thus often
left without a unifying ideological framework, again in a sort of gap.=20

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The set of cultural meanings which accrue under the heading 'feminism,' and
with which many of our students are informed, has moved so far from the
accepted understandings which underpin our research and teaching, as to
render ourselves and our students less intelligible to each other. To what
extent has post-feminist discourse acted as a disabling force? Driven by the
conviction that our students DO possess a politics of gender, we feel that
this gap in understanding (and overlapping gaps economic, cultural and
sexual) demand exploration in order for feminist pedagogy to proceed in
higher education. =20

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We would like this issue to facilitate such exploration.  We would welcome
papers, both theoretical and practice-based, from academics teaching through
feminism in all disciplines.  Those incorporating student input in any way
would be most welcome.=20

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Please submit 300 word abstracts to mmiller at marjon.ac.uk by 1st March 2006

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