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From: Discussion list for Feminism in Geography [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Kristin M Sziarto [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 10:50 AM
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Subject: CFP Feminist Pedagogies (AAG Tampa 2014)
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Call for Panelists
Session organizers: Kristin Sziarto (University of Milwaukee – Wisconsin) and Alison Bain (York University)
This session aims to inspire conversations building on existing scholarship in feminist and critical pedagogies (Dowler 2002; Browne 2005; Oberhauser 2008; Davidson et al. 2009), and upon bell hooks’s call for ‘engaged pedagogy.’ Engaged pedagogy involves mutual learning experiences with an emphasis on well-being. This “means that teachers must be actively committed to a process of self-actualization that promotes their own well-being if they are to teach in a manner that empowers students” (hooks 1994: 15).
Such critical pedagogic practice challenges norms of traditional education, which fosters the ‘banking’ model of education with its particular power imbalances; norms of the academy, which is structured not to reward teaching; and norms of neoliberal capitalism, which views teaching as valuable only if commodifiable.
We propose a panel-workshop format, in which interested participants set the stage for the workshop with brief remarks (5 minutes each), and then all attendees form breakout groups to discuss preferred topics, which might include:
Feminist pedagogy in practice: linking the scholarly with the personal, enacting an ethic of care, safety and danger in the classroom, positionality and pedagogy, pedagogies of hope (hooks 2003)
The role of (dis)comfort in the classroom
Managing personal boundaries in the classroom
The politics of assessment: developing alternative evaluation processes
Teaching feminist geographies and/or geographies of gender: challenges and opportunities
Feminist field trips: learning through embodied and emotional interaction
Incorporating feminist content into all geography courses
Feminist mentoring as pedagogy
Feminist practice through everyday resistance within and beyond the academy
Strategies for negotiating social and political power structures of the university
We invited interested panelist participants to send a short abstract (no more than 250 words, and less is fine) to Kristin Sziarto ([log in to unmask]) and Alison Bain ([log in to unmask]) by November 1. Feel free to contact us with questions about the session. This session is sponsored by GPOW.
Browne, K. (2005) Placing the personal in pedagogy: engaged pedagogy in feminist geographical teaching. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 29(3): 339-354.
Davidson, J. et al. (2009) Embodying field trips as affective educational experience. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 33(3): 303-314.
Dowler, L. (2002) The uncomfortable classroom: incorporating feminist pedagogy and political practice into world regional geography. Journal of Geography 101(2): 68-72.
hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to Transgress. (London: Routledge).
hooks, b. (2003). Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. (London: Routledge).
Oberhauser, A. (2008). Feminist Pedagogy: Diversity and Praxis in a University Context. In Feminisms in Geography: Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges, eds. P. Moss and K. Falconer Al-Hindi, pp. 215-220. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Kristin M. Sziarto
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Bolton Hall 468
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: 414-229-3941
Fax: 414-229-3981
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