This faculty learning community will provide a place to explore the meaning and significance of feminist and anti-racist pedagogies, the relationships between them, and the real possibilities for integration of such teaching and learning methods into courses at UGA. A guiding theme will be the connections between work in the classroom and work in wider communities. We may begin by reading together an influential text, such as bell hooks’ Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom. (Routledge, 1994), to ground the conversation in key questions about relationships among the politics of race and gender, and teaching methods and practices. We may then review and discuss theoretical and practical literatures in the field, such as those texts listed below. Participants may reflectively analyze past teaching and learning experiences in light of the literature and our own presentations and conversations, and present puzzling or complex cases and questions for discussion and collective problem-solving. Our work together may also involve our “testing” of various feminist and anti-racist pedagogies. Here participants may teach material of interest to the group, using the pedagogical methods in question. This learning community can therefore serve as a laboratory for experimenting with various alternative pedagogies. Participant may also develop new course or other projects that implement the lessons and insights developed through our work together.

Dr. Chris Cuomo, Director of the Institute of Women's Studies, will be the facilitator for this community.   
Email:  cuomo@uga.edu
Phone:  706-542-2846