Bringing Back the 'Classroom': Feminist Pedagogy in a Sociology Classroom. (January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wagh, Anurekha Chari
• Is Part Of: Society and culture in South Asia. Volume 8:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 7
• Page End: 29
• Publication Date: 2022-01
• Subjects: Classroom -- feminist pedagogy -- vulnerabilities -- experience sharing -- sociology of gender; Sociology -- South Asia -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- South Asia -- Periodicals; South Asia -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals; South Asia -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 301.095405
• DOI: 10.1177/23938617211047630
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2393-8617

Abstract

The article interlinks sociology and classrooms through the lens of teaching gender studies. It argues that to address the challenges of teaching gender studies to students of sociology at a university department, of a state university, it has to be placed within the complex terrain of classrooms. It states that while there is a discussion on the challenges of framing feminist pedagogy and teaching gender studies in India, there is inadequate engagement with the issue of; one, the changing nature of the classroom and its relevance and impact in the structuring of the disciplinary theories, methodologies and pedagogy and two, the challenges of operationalising feminist pedagogy within classrooms.