Feminist Pedagogy

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...

Feminist Pedagogy Literature Review Table 1. Student name and comments Your name Commented On Gabriel Shetterley Mat Murphy - Transformative Learning Literature Review Introduction In our modern condition, the long-held beliefs of a single coherent grand narrative and perspective of history have been disillusioned. There is not just one single interpretation, but many. From this new perspective, there has been a slew of new and exciting fields of study, with the most notable ideals being post-modernism and the post-truth movement, just to name a few. While the aforementioned ideals are hot topics in some academic debates fields, there is one ideal that is have become more perversive in our modern context, feminism. While many of us may have a negative approach to feminism, some of you may even be thinking of the “unarticulated thought/screaming feminist” meme. This stereotype is far from the core ideological beliefs, structures, and operations of fem...