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Using critical and post-critical pedagogies to pick at the seams of patriarchy from ‘the inside’.
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Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education . Jun2017, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p377-388. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *HIGH schools
*GENDER
*DOCUMENTARY films
*MASCULINITY
*THEORY of self-knowledge
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01596306
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 122554182
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1306983