Feminist Pedagogy

Group Members Roles Commented On Katee Welte Program Design/ Tables/ PowerPoint Group 3: Narrative Learning  Tiffany Hamilton Rational Gabriel Shetterley Intro, Reflection, Editing Group 5:  Transformational Learning Introduction Traditionally, education has been put within the perspective of the masculine. We can see this to be true when looking at the traditional methods of instruction within the educational system. The teachers/professors are the keepers of knowledge, and the students are empty receptacles for knowledge to be bestowed upon, in, or into. After the modern era, and moving into the postmodern era, multiple new theories, beliefs, ideologies, understandings, and practices of educating began to emerge. Where traditional and this new, post, modern approach to learning diverge, is upon the belief of truth. Truth, under traditional education models, was something that was indisputable, limited it to only one inter...

Feminist Pedagogy: Creating an Empowering, Gender Inclusive Learning Environment Tiffany Hamilton Ball State University EDAC 634 Creating an Empowering and Gender Inclusive Learning Environment Tiffany Hamilton Commented On Introduction: Feminist Pedagogy has many different models, just as there are numerous varieties and focuses of feminism.   Maher (1987) described two primary classes; liberatory models which focus on how feminist educators bring awareness to oppression, power and privilege through enable women to find their voices and speak up about what their life experiences have been like and their perspectives (as cited in Merriem, Caffarella, & Baumgartner, 2007). By bringing forth the female perspective, we are able to shed light on societal norms that create oppression based on gender, race and class and how the structure of most institutions, including the classroom, perpetuate powe...

Introduction: As human being male or female we carry some sense of knowledge. Our own distinct set of knowledge-based ideas, thoughts, concepts, and so on. While still undergoing research, we try to understand the concepts of knowledge and how everyone learns. For this paper we will review Feminine Pedagogy and how it plays its role in learning the concept of knowledge, and how it is used in everyday practices. It begins with the pedagogical framework firm with feminist theory while also inviting epistemological theories, teaching strategies, approaches to content, in the classroom and the relationships between the teacher and the students, considering knowledge to be socially constructed. Pedagogy is today more commonly known as the approach to teaching, while referring to the practice of learning- how is the social, political and psychological development of the learner influenced by such process. Like feminist pedagogy studying the interactions that are taking place in th...