1st Edition

Meeting the Challenge Innovative Feminist Pedagogies in Action

Edited By Ellen Cronan Rose, Maralee Mayberry Copyright 1999
    376 Pages
    by Routledge

    376 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection demonstrates how feminist pedagogy can be implemented in a variety of institutional and disciplinary settings. Unlike most of the current literature, it provides a vast array of examples of feminist pedagogy in action. It suggests practical ways of creating classroom environments open to feminist and anti-racist teaching, way feminists at universities can intervene in community programs and how to apply feminist pedagogy to new challenges such as distance education, cyberspace, fiscal constraints, and the changing political climate. Meeting the Challenge also looks to other nations for examples of how to successfully implement feminist pedagogy.

    CONTENTS Introduction LAYING THE PEDAGOGICAL GROUNDWORK Reproductive and Resistant Pedagogies: The Comparative Roles of Collaborative Learning and Feminist Pedagogy in Science Education Teaching in Environments of Resistance: Toward a Critical, Feminist, and Antiracist Pedagogy TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONAL OBSTACLES INTO OPPORTUNITIES Wrestling with the Devil, or From Pedagogy to Profit and Back Again Feminist Wolves in Sheep's Disguise: Learning Communities and Internships Assessment and Feminist Pedagogy TECHNOLOGY: PEDAGOGICAL ENHANCEMENT OR IMPEDIMENT? Women's Studies on Television? It's Time for Distance Learning This Class Meets in Cyberspace: Women's Studies via Distance Education Further Adventures of a Women's Studies Cyberspace Cadet Teacher Involvement and Transformative Power on a Gender Issues Discussion List A SPECTRUM OF CLASSROOMS Feminist Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary Praxis, and Science Education FreshMAN Composition: Blueprint for Subversion Gender Studies in God's Country: Feminist Pedagogy in a Catholic College Embodied Learning: The Body as an Epistemological Site Sophia and Sophistry: Gender and Western Civilization Feminist Teaching in a Law Faculty in New Zealand FEMINIST PEDAGOGY AND THE COMMUNITY Letting Feminist Knowledge Serve the City

    Biography

    the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is co-author of The Canon and the Common Reader (1990) and Maralee Mayberry is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is Project Director for Projects for Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Study and Education and co-author of Home Schooling: Parents as Educator (1995) and Effective Educational Environments (1992).

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