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Miriam Schacht

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Amena Moinfar

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Prof. Lisa Moore

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?

This page links you directly to eFiles materials that are designed to reflect feminist pedagogical processes or goals.

Syllabi:
Prof. Lisa Moore's E370W Syllabus: Gay and Lesbian Literature and Culture
Prof. Lisa Moore's E316K Syllabus: Masterworks of Literature: British (Women's and Gender Studies Emphasis)

Assignments:

Below are sources of information on feminist pedagogy that we found useful. We'd like to keep this list current and stimulating, so if you have additions, please send them to Laura Smith at laura.smith@mail.utexas.edu or add them here.

Journals
Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching. Currently in its 18th volume, the journal has been in circulation since 1984.

Articles
"Feminist Cyborgs: Teaching Like a Feminist in the Computer Classroom," a white paper authored by the CWRL's 2005 Feminist Pedagogy workgroup.

"Melanie Ulrich's Feminist Pedagogy," a white paper by CWRL Developer Kristin Hogan.

Defining Feminist Pedagogy
Despite differences in definition, feminist pedagogies tend to share some common principles. The feminist classroom challenges students to
• gain an understanding of different social realities,
• identify with groups of people with whom they may have never connected,
• alter social realities with which they are dissatisfied,
• think about potential social problems in new and informed ways and to propose solutions to such problems.

Some characteristics of feminist pedagogy, which come from theories and traditions ranging from bell hooks to Paulo Friere, are:
• a student-centered or de-centered classroom,
• student ownership—on some level—of classroom projects and conversations,
• attention to a multiple learning styles and multiple intelligences,
• endorsement of collaborative learning and collaborative working styles,