Using critical and post-critical pedagogies to pick at the seams of patriarchy from 'the inside

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ID2925377
AuthorsSherilyn Lennon (0000-0003-3384-8377, Griffith University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume38
Issue3
Pages377-388
Publication date2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2017.1306983
OpenAlexW2598498448
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

This article explores the use of critical and post-critical pedagogies in a rural Australian high school for the purposes of unsettling life-limiting gender beliefs and practices. The paper problematises two examples whereby site-specific knowledges, curriculum dictates, media texts and critical pedagogies were enmeshed to create politically charged spaces for re-seeing, re-thinking and re-doing gender. The first example involves a unit of work in which students were required to critically analyse and evaluate a well-known Australian documentary film for the particular version of hypermasculinity that it was valorising. The second example involves the collaborative critiquing of a well-known local text. At the conclusion of the paper, I turn a critically reflexive eye upon myself as a way of considering the ethics and issues for educators of challenging power asymmetries from ‘the inside’. It is at this point that I discover it is possibly I who have been disrupted most of all

Aesthetics · Art · Critical pedagogy · Critical theory · Critical thinking · Curriculum · Epistemology · Patriarchy · Pedagogy · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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