Contribution to Book
Pedagogical Too-Muchness: A Feminist Approach to Community-Based Learning, Multimodal Composition, Social Justice Education, and More
Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis
(2018)
Abstract
As part of the collection Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis edited by Kristine L. Blair and Lee Nickoson, this chapter describes my approach to “Writing for Social Justice” and situates feminist, critical education as “instead of” rather than “on top of” more traditional approaches.
Throughout the chapter, I share several guiding principles:
1. engage our full selves—not only our minds, but also our bodies, emotions, and spirits;
2. prioritize relations, or put the time and effort into building and sustaining meaningful (and often cross-status) connections among people and organizations;
3. understand power as related to (in)justice so that efforts against sexism and for gender-and-sexuality-justice are linked with other justice-oriented work, since identities and issues are intersectional and injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere;
4. cultivate agency so that students and other actors see themselves as having the responsibility to act, as well as the questions and insights to ask who is responsible to act, when, where, why, and how (troubling savior and victim narratives);
5. seek interconnectedness among ways of seeing, thinking, doing, and being in the world so that we work toward coherence across spheres of activity and recognize that our work occurs within complex socio-cultural, historical, and rhetorical systems.
(pages 337-338)
Keywords
- pedagogy,
- teaching,
- feminism,
- feminist pedagogy,
- community-based learning,
- community engagement,
- grading contracts,
- conferencing,
- portfolios,
- teaching writing,
- digital rhetoric,
- community partnerships,
- connection,
- social justice,
- racial justice
Disciplines
Publication Date
2018
Editor
Kristine L. Blair and Lee Nickoson
Publisher
WAC Clearinghouse and Colorado State University Open Press
Citation Information
Beth Godbee. "Pedagogical Too-Muchness: A Feminist Approach to Community-Based Learning, Multimodal Composition, Social Justice Education, and More" Boulder, ColoradoComposing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis (2018)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/beth_godbee/41/