ERIC Number: EJ1143681
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 15
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Doing Feminist Difference Differently: Intersectional Pedagogical Practices in the Context of the Neoliberal Diversity Regime
Smele, Sandra; Siew-Sarju, Rehanna; Chou, Elena; Breton, Patricia; Bernhardt, Nicole
Teaching in Higher Education, v22 n6 p690-704 2017
At present there is a small, albeit growing, body of literature on pedagogical strategies and reflections which addresses the ways educators attempt to challenge the effects of neoliberalism on higher education. In this article, we reflect upon our pedagogical practices in higher education in this moment of neoliberal transformation wherein, as Sirma Bilge notes, intersectionality is being "undone" in academic feminism. As graduate students teaching in Toronto, Canada, we describe how our commitment to social justice pedagogy works against this "undoing" of intersectionality by embracing vulnerability, discomfort and the possibility of conflict in classrooms that do not simply accommodate, celebrate or include difference. Given that neoliberal renderings of diversity obscure and reinforce unequal relations of power, we demonstrate how we attend to these power relations, particularly racism which is salient to our teaching context, by employing intersectionality as a pedagogical practice and a political intervention to advance social justice.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Neoliberalism, Social Justice, Intervention, Racial Bias, Higher Education, Graduate Students, Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Feminism, Story Telling, Critical Theory, Disabilities, Introductory Courses, Student Attitudes, Social Differences, Ethnicity, Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Political Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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