Albrecht J (2024)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2024
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2024.2442939
This article explores the author's approach to teaching Religious Studies with a focus on gender, sexuality, and feminist pedagogy. In a predominantly white and cis-hetero-male field, the author intentionally incorporates feminist perspectives to create an inclusive and supportive classroom environment. Additionally, their teaching on South Asia, particularly Sri Lanka, involves engaging predominantly white students who are interested in feminist approaches. The author draws on bell hooks’ and Chandra Mohanty's work to conceptualise a decolonial classroom as a feminist pedagogy–as well as the problems that a focus on the North-American classroom, prevalent in current pedagogical reflections entails. The feminist European classroom recognizes itself as a Third Space (Homi Bhabha), where power structures are made visible, and translation between students’ experiences and academic knowledge takes place. Teaching gender and sexuality in disciplines not originally designed for them is seen as a disruptive and transformative act.
APA:
Albrecht, J. (2024). Third space pedagogy: teaching gender and sexuality in the European classroom. Gender and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2024.2442939
MLA:
Albrecht, Jessica. "Third space pedagogy: teaching gender and sexuality in the European classroom." Gender and Education (2024).
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