An Examination of Teaching as a Practical Political Activity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12009201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne M Phelan (0000-0002-3926-2134, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author), Rosary Lalik (Virginia Tech), Rosary V Lalik |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-173 |
| Publication date | 1993-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Curriculum Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-6784 • E-ISSN: 1467-873X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03626784.1993.11076115 |
| OpenAlex | W2315632087 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper examines the notion of teacher as an agent of social change. The study participants were feminist university teachers. The study is important because it explored schools as political sites where teaching and learning are understood in terms of democratic citizenship and social justice. The theoretical base for the research was neo-Marxist theory drawing specifically on the concept of teacher as “transformative intellectual.”The findings of the study suggest that the notion of transformative intellectual may rely too heavily on abstract, and highly rationalistic, constructions of “empowerment” and “dialogue” as transformative strategies. Moreover, the study underscores a need to attend to the transformative intellectual as complicit in the production, and legitimation, of certain kinds of knowledges, in the context of pedagogy as an “interactive productivity.” Additionally, “transformative may not refer to a state, or characteristic, of an individual teacher but rather to a relationship between individuals in a group. Finally, the study points to the immense difficulties posed by the university institution to the work of the would-be transformative intellectual
Context (archaeology · Empowerment · Epistemology · Feminism · Legitimation · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Law
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Education and Power
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Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy
Symbolic Interactionism
The social reality of religion
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Feminist Politics
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Criticism and Social Change
Feminist Studies/Critical Studies
Feminist Theory
The Education of Women as Philosophers
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 1994 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |