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Introduction

The CWRL's Feminist Pedagogy workgroup (active until 2007) maintained a collection of syllabi, assignments, essays, and CWRL white papers in response to instructors' desire to explore and incorporate feminist pedagogical principles and practices into their teaching.

In particular, the Feminist Pedagogy workgroup sought to
* develop our definitions and analyze our practice of feminist pedagogy
* explore the diverse origins of feminist pedagogy
* integrate perspectives from nonwestern feminisms and queer studies
* articulate links between feminist pedagogy and technology-based instruction.

The following pages are a summary of that work:
* "Syllabi and Assignments" identifies pedagogical resources on eFiles and elsewhere.
* "Bibliography and Links" includes annotated links to relevant essays, CWRL-authored white papers, and websites.

What is Feminist Pedagogy?
Despite differences in definition, feminist pedagogies tend to share some common principles. The feminist classroom may help individuals gain an understanding of different social realities, and identify with groups of people with whom they may have never connected. The feminist classroom may also encourage students to alter a social reality with which they are dissatisfied, and really, to encourage people to think about potential social problems in new and informed ways as well as to propose solutions to such problems.

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