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Curriculum, Knowledge and Learning Oct 2nd, 2006
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Curriculum, Knowledge & Learning
• Who teaches?• How is the material taught?• What material is taught?
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Who Teaches?
• What do the stats tell us?• What are the implications?
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How is the material taught?
• Pedagogy is the art or science of teaching
• Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach which attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that support the proposed domination.
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Feminist Pedagogy
• embraces the idea of treating female and male students equally
• embraces the idea of transforming the curriculum to make it more gender-inclusive
• Traditional classroom replicates patriarchal power relations
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Key Points
• shifts the attention from the teacher to the students • encourages students to take control of the material and to
relate it to their every day experiences. • discussion of the reading material is given precedence over the
traditional lecture/delivery method • students participate in collaborative, connective learning: we
learn from each other • knowledge is socially constructed and that there is always a
tendency to create knowledge in one's own image. • Students learn to reject monolithic solutions to complex
problems, learn to contextualize discourse, and learn to question the very criteria of what has been defined as "appropriate" knowledge
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Key points continued
• collaborative learning environment where student ideas count as contributions to knowledge
• they also believe that students must learn to be responsible for their own learning
• strives to make classrooms more hospitable to women by drawing on examples from their lives, acknowledging the broad range of their accomplishments, and treating their life experiences as normal.
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Themes in Feminist Pedagogy
• Authority• Position• Empowerment• Non-neutrality of education
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What material is taught?
• Epistemology: The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity.
• Feminist epistemology consists of theories of knowledge created by women, about women's modes of knowing, for the purpose of liberating women.
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Dominant knowledge practices disadvantage women by…
• (1) excluding them from inquiry, • (2) denying them epistemic authority, • (3) denigrating their “feminine” cognitive styles
and modes of knowledge, • (4) producing theories of women that represent
them as inferior, deviant, or significant only in the ways they serve male interests,
• (5) producing theories of social phenomena that render women's activities and interests, or gendered power relations, invisible, and
• (6) producing knowledge (science and technology) that is not useful for people in subordinate positions, or that reinforces gender and other social hierarchies.
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They aim to…
• (1) explain why the entry of women and feminist scholars into different academic disciplines, especially in biology and the social sciences, has generated new questions, theories, and methods,
• (2) show how gender has played a causal role in these transformations, and
• (3) defend these changes as cognitive, not just social, advances
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Three approaches to Feminist Epistemology
• feminist standpoint theory• Knowledge socially situated
• feminist postmodernism• Knowledge exchanged - not one privileged over
another• feminist empiricism
• Is science neutral and bias free?
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Academic freedom
• It is the right to teach, learn, study and publish free of orthodoxy or threat of reprisal and discrimination.
• It includes the right to criticize the university and the right to participate in its governance.
• Tenure provides a foundation for academic freedom by ensuring that academic staff cannot be dismissed without just cause and rigorous due process
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Academic Freedom
http://www.caut.ca/en/policies/academicfreedom.asp
What are your thoughts on the pros and cons of this?
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Blog Work
• How do you envision the ‘perfect’ classroom?
• What styles of learning work best for you?
• How do your learning experiences in HE compare/contrast with your style of learning?