GRSJ 320 (3): Anti-racist Feminist Pedagogies
Term 2
Feminist pedagogies and feminist debates about pedagogy in formal, nonformal, and informal educational settings.
The first half of this course explores colonial forms of knowledge and its transmission. We will study learning and teaching practices rooted in colonial and Orientalist travel, and popular forms of global cultural tourism that commodify Indigenous and so called exotic cultures. We will interrogate western institutions such as museums, human zoos, and their connection to research and the modern university and the racist, colonial, gendered roots of western science and disciplines such as medicine. We will also examine the capitalist commodification of knowledge by studying the role of AI such as ChatGPT introduced by high tech companies specializing on knowledge production as a form of privatization of the human knowledge commons, a corporate theft of intellectual human work. The second half of the course focuses on decolonizing knowledge. We study alternative pedagogies such as non-western, non-eurocentric pedagogies, Indigenous land pedagogy and storytelling guided by radical Indigenous methodologies that ponder on the possibilities of anti-racist, decolonial and liberatory forms of education.