WGSS 8006 - Feminist Pedagogy

3 Credit Hours
Description
Introduction to both theoretical and practical components of feminist pedagogy. The phrase “feminist pedagogy” refers to pedagogical practices that work to be anti-oppressive and liberatory. It develops within a tradition of critical pedagogy, which involves both a critique of the university as a place that acts as a “gatekeeper” for class privilege and “appropriate” subject-formation as well as a vision of the university where we can contest power relations and imagine new possibilities for expanding the intelligible. In other words, feminist pedagogy imagines the classroom as a space to encourage deep exploration of social problems in order to critically evaluate and explore social justice frameworks. In the class, students will utilize these theoretical frameworks in order to develop their own specific goals and evaluate specific teaching strategies for use in their own classrooms.