The Interests of Full Disclosure: Agenda-Setting and
the Practical Initiation of the Feminist Classroom
by Nicole Seymour
Introduction
Several theoretical and pragmatic questions
arise when one attempts to employ
feminist pedagogy in the classroom
(or to study it), such as how to strike a
balance between classroom order and
instructor de-centering and how to productively
address student resistance. I
believe, however, there is a more fundamental
question: How, specifically, is a
feminist classroom initiated? Via group
consensus? Through the syllabus? In
class discussion? By the teacher's open
goal-setting? Further, do these acts of
initiation need to take place on the very
first day? Are the words "feminist" or
"radical" ever spoken?
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