Title: Dada Practice: A Feminist Reading: Reaction to Stephanie Kirkwood Walker's Review of "Getting Smart"
Abstract:Association (AERA) annual conference where we will present, under Division B auspices, a session entitled Building Feminist Community: Reviewing and Being Reviewed. It is in that spirit that I respond...Association (AERA) annual conference where we will present, under Division B auspices, a session entitled Building Feminist Community: Reviewing and Being Reviewed. It is in that spirit that I respond to Stephanie Kirkwood Walker's review of Getting Smart. While I will focus on her review of my book, I will also be responding to other reviewers, some, I might add, much more perturbed by me than Walker. Of great curiosity to me is that my intended primary focus on research methodology gets displaced onto the scene of liberatory pedagogy. explains somewhat the lack of attention in most reviews to the chapter on postmodernism and the human sciences (chap. 6), and a sometimes exclusive focus on the chapter on student resistance to liberatory curriculum (chap. 7) which itself begins, This chapter explores what it means to write science differently. I am of a mind, for example, that one reviewer read only this chapter plus the preface (Marcroft 1991). In my mind, the object of my feminist inquiry happened to be feminist pedagogy, but my great interest, always, was research methodology. When I was asked to do a speaking tour of several Ontario universities the fall of 1991 on the topic of feminist pedagogy, I rewrote the focus as Doing Feminist Research on Feminist Pedagogy to more closely reflect my sense of the project of the book. For whatever an author's intention is worth these days, my own sense of address was to science, particularly Laurie Anderson's sense of Big Science. One of the arguments of my book is that the line between practices of emancipatory research and practices of emancipatory pedagogy is quite fuzzy. And, goddess knows, I celebrate the increasing focus on pedagogy across the academy, a focus to which feminist pedagogy has greatly contributed (Luke and GoreRead More
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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