Critical & Feminist Pedagogies

Critical n' Feminist Pedagogies

Critical Pedagogy

Drawn from critical theory

• Dissects uneven power dynamics
• How societal institutions perpetuate oppression n' disempowerment
• Traces contexts of meaning

-race

-gender

-class

-religion

-weight

-health

-ideology

Gonna examine

-texts

-media

-rhetorics

-images

Example of a critical theorist

Foucault

Psychology

The Birth of the Clinic

-doctors n' authority

-the DSM

-classifying crazy vs. sane

History

-What gets to be called "history"

• Rome n' Greece as the "cradle of civilization"

What narratives are remembered

• Founding of America

Choosing sides

Defining victory vs. defeat

• Cesaer n' Gaul

Haymarket

affair vs. riot

Hong Kong

Critical Pedagogy

Examines how education, curricula, teaching methods, etc. function to perpetuate oppression, classism, n' disempowerment

• curricula
• methodologies
• teacher behavior
• classroom environment
• ideologies

*rockstar*

• epistemological

We can use the classroom to examine, dismantle, and reassemble socially constructed ideas n' institutions of power

Paulo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Spoke against:

• "Banking" education
• Teacher as knowledge gate-keeper
• Curricula reinforcing society's inequitable power dynamics

Ira Shore

Critical literacy

-Examining the impact of discourse styles and rhetoric on societal power dynamics

-How does language encourage societal notions about gender, race, class, age, etc.?

Btw, Cognitive rhetoric...eep!

Martha Nussenbaum Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Henry Giroux

Critical Pedagogy, The State, and the Struggle for Culture

The Violence of Organized Forgetting

Disempowerment as a byproduct

of systematic racism, classism, etc.

New idea: our brains n' "forgetting" "demphasizing" as acts that marginalize

Neil Postman

Teaching as a Subversive Activity

Teaching as a means to upend

inequitable power dyanmics

"Inquiry Method"

In Practice

In the curricula

Student-centered everything

Culturally n' socially relevant topics

Transphobia

• rhetorics that perpetuated it
• How it was subverted
• "politically correct"

Fatphobia

-rhetorics that perpetuate it

-how is it being subverted

Ever-changing syllabi

Relevance (to students n' society)

Differing style of learners

('specially here at FP, amIrite?)

Embracing new forms of literacy

Digital

Visual

...video games....?

-Acknowledging that students can derive

authority from experience, such as an academic can derive authority from research

Christian S. n' Malcolm X vs. MLK

The rubric.....

Having some assignments wherein

we stress process over product

-how does the writing benefit

the student, rather than the audience

Success measured on students ability to think...not *what* they think

In the classroom

Establishing fluid power-dynamic...from the get-go

-Teaching with, rather than teaching to

-Students are not going to fear being wrong

SRTOL: Student's Right to Their Own Language

Navigating discourse communities

History

Inquiry method (think Socratic)

Heightening consciousness, recognizing complicity

-education as change n' transcendence

-Respecting individual learning styles n' learning needs

Technology

-Internet as a device of democratization

-considering Wikipedia.....

Resisting the idea of a single,

universal knowledge

-history (what's stressed n' not)

-*how* to do a math problem

-familiarity with a cannon

Learning as "unlearning"

history, grammar, aesthetics

Complicity

deep reads n' symbolism+meaning

classroom behavior

In the teacher

-Constantly engaging in self-examination

What's this look like?

Critical humility ;-)

• worth coming from:

authority in a classroom

vs.

ability to facilitate learning n' agency

-Be always-curious

-Be willing to admit mistakes--big and small

Feminist Pedagogy

Also interested in exploring and dismantling power relations

Motivated, though, by the investigation of gender relations

-recognizing socially constructed power dynamics and how ideas of knowledge and education function to perpetuate those dynamics

-what constitutes "knowledge" is fluent, context-dependent, and constructed

Reflexivity in examining

power relations--how I impact them, how they impact me

Major stress on lived experience

-relevance to learning

-relevance to knowledge-sets

Inclusivity

Transformative

-Personal change

-Social change

bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress

Social responsibility

& Online teaching

November 1, 2019

Online ed & participation

Don't try to replicate the classroom

different resources

embodiment

Student-centered