WS 698-001 -- Feminist Pedagogy
(3 Credits)
Sarah Fenstermaker, Wednesdays 9am-12pm
Feminist pedagogy is a mixed bag of considerations pertaining to knowledge production, teaching strategies, feminist notions of teacher and student, and what to do in a classroom. Some questions asked by participants might include:
What is a feminist classroom?
What is ‘engaged’ pedagogy?
What are the qualities of a teacher/professor worth emulating?
What authority does experience have?
WS 698 will explore these questions and many more -- both with a critical eye to theories of teaching and learning, and with an interest in drawing on best practices as teachers of feminist scholarship. In addition to assorted articles, readings will include Fisher’s No Angel in the Classroom (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) and Luke and Gore (ed.), Feminisms and Critical Pedagogy ( Routledge, 1992), and Zerubavel’s The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life (Oxford, 2006).
Requirements will include frequent short, critical assessments of the readings, service as discussion facilitator, and the presentation of an annotated syllabus for a new undergraduate class of the seminar participant’s devising.
