[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Feminist Pedagogy (3/1/06; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Meredith Miller <mmiller@marjon.ac.uk>

Submissions are requested for a special issue of the journal Feminist 
Teacher
entitled, The Feminist Gap: Ideology and Practice in Higher Education


As teaching academics, we are aware of a gap between ourselves and our 
students
in reading the terms of feminism. Added to the gaps - economic, 
cultural, sexual
- that we have been involved in exploring over the past two decades is a gap
which we are driven to understand as historical/generational. In reality, we
feel that this gap is primarily ideological, in the sense that student
understandings of 'feminism' (as a term) seem increasingly to be derived 
from
particular popular culture sources which ultimately support pre-feminist 
ideas
of the natural. Thus feminism, as Angela McRobbie has pointed out, has 
become an
increasingly historicised category separate from students' ideas about 
their own
gender politics. Convictions about gender which our students hold are 
thus often
left without a unifying ideological framework, again in a sort of gap.

The set of cultural meanings which accrue under the heading 'feminism,' 
and with
which many of our students are informed, has moved so far from the accepted
understandings which underpin our research and teaching, as to render 
ourselves
and our students less intelligible to each other. To what extent has
post-feminist discourse acted as a disabling force? Driven by the conviction
that our students DO possess a politics of gender, we feel that this gap in
understanding (and overlapping gaps economic, cultural and sexual) demand
exploration in order for feminist pedagogy to proceed in higher education.

We would like this issue to facilitate such exploration. We would welcome
papers, both theoretical and practice-based, from academics teaching through
feminism in all disciplines. Those incorporating student input in any 
way would
be most welcome.

Please submit 300 word abstracts to mmiller@marjon.ac.uk by 1st March 2006



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