Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist : Storying Our Experiences in Higher Education / by Elizabeth Mackinlay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Author.

Series:

Teaching Gender

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVIII, 226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

"Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist is a conversation between academics in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies about the politics of pedagogy in higher education. What does it mean to embody feminism in universities today? Written in a creative narrative style, Mackinlay explores the discursive, material and affective dimensions of what it might mean to live the personal-as-political-as-performative in our work as teachers and learners in the contemporary climate of neo-liberal universities. This book is both theory and story and aims to bring feminist theorists such as Virginia Woolf, Hélène Cixous, Sara Ahmed and bell hooks together in conversation with Mackinlay’s own experiences, and those of women she interviewed, in their diverse roles as ‘feminist-academic-subjects’. The fluid writing style presented is a deliberate attempt to enact a ‘post-academic’ form of literature and is playfully punctuated by black and white drawings. Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist captures the precarious position of Women and Gender Studies in universities today, as well as the ‘danger’ inherent in grounding teaching and learning work in feminist politics. Mackinlay wraps herself in both and invites us to do the same. This book is designed to stimulate reflection and lively class discussion and is appropriate for courses in curriculum studies and pedagogy, education, feminism and feminist theory, gender and women’s studies, and narrative inquiry. It can also be read by individual teachers and researchers interested in feminism. “Mackinlay re-envisages how feminist knowledge can be articulated through her audacious and engaging mix of reflection, analysis, narrative, poetry, and line drawings.This is a refreshingly personal and powerfully collective analysis of doing feminism in hostile institutions. It will give heart to many.” – Alison Bartlett, The University of Western Australia, Perth “This highly readable book is a love story about feminism at the same time as a rigorous investigation … a must read for undergraduate students and for scholars-who-don’t-identify-as-feminist, core reading for gender courses at all levels, and mandatory reading for feminist and gender academics.” – Julie White, Victoria University Elizabeth Mackinlay is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland."<.

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Writing, Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist

The Breath: Giving This Book Life

The Movement: Permissions for Writing Women in Stuck Places after Woolf, V. Professions for Women

The Skin: A Note on Writing

The Body: A Note on Drawing

The Bones: Framing This Work

Not Afraid of the ‘F’ Word: Positioning Ourselves as Women’s and Gender Studies Academics

Opening

Scene 1 Do Universities Still Need Women’s and Gender Studies?

Scene 2 A ‘Feminesto’ about Higher Education

Scene 3 Ourselves as Feminist Academics

Closing

Finding Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Willing Journey into Danger

The Historical Body of Feminist Pedagogy: Following a Woman in Danger

In the Fullness and Process of Feminist Pedagogy: A Collective and Dangerous Body of Central Tenets

Rooms of Our Own: Feminist Pedagogy inside the Classroom

Room One

Room Two

Room Three

Room Four

Room Five

Room Six

Closing.-Living Feminist Pedagogy Outside the Classroom: Untimely Fragments

Are You a Feminist? Stories Undergraduate Students Tell about Teaching and Learning

The Story Begins

Prelude

Scene 1

Interlude

Scene 2

Scene 3

Living Our Pedagogic Response-Abilities in Women’s and Gender Studies

Talking and Living the Orange

The Materiality of Response-Ability in Feminist Pedagogy: Why It Matters to Me

A Diffractive Narrative: Feminist Pedagogy and a Refusal of Reflexivity towards Decoloniality

Diffraction and Decoloniality: Disobediently Living and Being beyond the Same

One Little Difference: A Teaching and Learning Story That Relies on Paint

Little Difference Number Two: White Paint on White Bodies

And Then There Were Three: Paint Becomes Remembrance, Refusal and Resolve

Daring to Lead with Feminism in Higher Education: Let It Blaze, Let It Blaze

Daring to Walk through with Virginia Woolf

Invading and Creating Feminist Spaces: Power, Politics and Perspectives

Embodying the Past, Future and Present Moment as Feminist Academics

Feminist Leaders as and through Feminist Pedagogy

Consequences of the Compromise within the Compromise for Feminist Academics

(Not) Concluding Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789463006774

946300677X

OCLC:

964656737