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Publication Date: 2012
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Bodies as Objects of Pedagogic Power Relations
Perumal, Juliet Christine
Gender and Education, v24 n1 p57-71 2012
This paper is based on a study titled "Enacting Feminisms in Academia", which engaged five feminist lecturers teaching English at five different multilingual universities in Southern Africa. The study explored: (1) the complexity of sociolinguistic and feminist identity construction in multilingual seascapes, and by extension (2) how feminist educators' interpretation and enactment of their personal world-view informs their language teaching in terms of "what" they teach, "how" they teach, and "why" they teach what they do. The participants who hail from a diverse range of ideological landscapes were identified either by themselves or others as feminist teachers. Through a suite of data sources which comprised autobiographical essays, interviews and lecture observations, this paper explores how the female teacher's educative and pedagogic expertise and interactions are framed in relation to her race, gender, and age. Accepting the fluidity and complexity of identity positionalities, the paper explores the identity constructions of the feminist teachers in their communities of practice. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Feminism, College Faculty, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Self Concept, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Essays, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Race, Gender Differences, Age, Communities of Practice, Females, Power Structure
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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