In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical perspectives can be brought into the classroom. This book discusses the processes employed to engage learners by challenging them to ask tough questions and craft complex answers, wrestle with timely problems and posit innovative solutions, and grapple with ethical dilemmas for which they seek just resolutions. Diverse experiences, interests, and perspectivesatogether with the various teaching and learning styles that participants bring to twenty-first-century universitiesanecessitate inventive and evolving pedagogical approaches, and these are explored from a critical perspective. The contributors collectively consider the implications of the theory/practice divide, which remains central within academic feminism's role as both a site of social and gender justice and as a part of the academy, and map out some of the ways in which academic feminism is located within the academy today.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN-13
9781771121149
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212633744
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
342 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Coaching & Career Guidance
Type
Textbook
Author
Tracy Penny Light, Jane Nicholas, Rena (C) E Bondy
Subject Area
Gender Issues, Experimental Psychology
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
228 mm
Item Weight
550 g
Item Width
152 mm
Additional Product Features
Editor
Tracy Penny Light, Rena (C) E Bondy, Jane Nicholas
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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