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Finding Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education

A Willing Journey into Danger

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Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist

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There is a question that lingers in my work as a Women’s and Gender Studies academic: what might it mean to live a feminist life in relation to the philosophies, politics and performativities of feminist pedagogy? On certain days it manifests as a call to arms to be attentive to and act ‘willfully’ upon the ways in which feminist politics manifests itself in our work as teachers and learners.

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Mackinlay, E. (2016). Finding Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education. In: Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist. Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-678-1_3

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