Abstract A comprehensive review of multidisciplinary literature revealed six principles of feminist pedagogy: reformation of the relationship between professor and scholar empowerment.

Abstract

A comprehensive review of multidisciplinary literature revealed six principles of feminist pedagogy: reformation of the relationship between professor and scholar empowerment, building community, privileging voice, respecting the diversity of personal experience, and challenging traditional pedagogical notions.

Feminist Pedagogy: Identifying Basic Principles

While scholars have protracted been concerned with the part of women in American public education (see Schmuck 1987 for a review of relevant literature), academic feminists solely recently began articulating the principles of a feminist pedagogy or a feminist methodology for teaching (Bright, 1993) Although definitions of feminism vary (Arnold, 2000; Weiler, 1995) principally authors would agree with