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Creating Community from Day One: An Activity for Connection and Collaboration
By: Christie VanHorne – Creating a sense of community and shared purpose is essential for a warm and welcoming classroom environment. I teach an undergraduate course on critical issues in women’s health, a challenging yet vital topic in today’s political climate that tackles personal and complex issues. From day one, I focus on fostering respect,…
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Transformative Spaces: Feminist Pedagogy in Academic Conferencing
By: Charity Anderson Ph.D., Staci Gilpin, Ph.D., Marta Pulley, MS-IDT, and Courtney Plotts, Ph.D. – In our collective journey as women deeply immersed in the world of online higher education, we have steadfastly embraced the tenets of feminist pedagogy. Our approach is grounded in the ethos of collaboration and communal contribution, underpinned by a strong…
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Supporting Online Student Persistence:
By: Staci Gilpin, PhD – I’m an avid podcast listener, and I cherish those moments when I can relax and enjoy some downtime with my miniature schnauzer, Heiter, who lives up to his name by always being a cheerful presence. As I was recently engrossed in a podcast episode about the subtle presence of patriarchy…
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Harnessing Generative AI to Support Feminist Pedagogy
By: Julia Lang – As I welcomed my first-year students to class this semester, I posed a simple question: Who had used ChatGPT before? To my surprise, not a single hand went up. It became evident that many students had been discouraged or even barred from using ChatGPT in their previous educational experiences. Only one…
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Time Equity for Mothers through Labor-Based Grading
By: Rachel Blume – In 2022, I left Texas and made a ten-day journey to Fairbanks, Alaska for graduate school. When I arrived, I came as a single mother with a three-year-old son and a list of worries I was intent to leave at the door. In fact, I arrived at my Teaching Assistant Orientation…
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Online Moms: Distance Education and Women Nontraditional Students
By: Adriana Alba – Online education can provide a range of advantages for women, particularly those who face barriers to accessing traditional education due to family responsibilities, financial constraints, or social norms. These programs attract women students because of their flexibility and the possibility of managing existing family commitments while obtaining a degree-level education. Although…
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Allowing for Silence in the Asynchronous Online Classroom
By: Nora McIntyre – A pedagogy of listening in a first year composition class necessitates allowing for silence. But what does silence look like in a course taught asynchronously and online? This past semester I taught first year college composition alongside a team of two fellow graduate teaching assistants. Our class was a hybrid online/in…
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Power to the People! Vernaculars are Revolutionary
By: MFC Feeley – The day after I first read about “other Englishes” in my pedagogy class, an old friend remarked that I never speak anything but “the Queen’s English.” I was sad to admit he was right. Don’t misunderstand me. I’m an English teacher—I love English! That’s why I love “other Englishes.” Other Englishes…
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Feminist Pedagogy after Roe
By: Clare Daniel and Karissa Haugeberg – The recently leaked SCOTUS draft decision on Dobbs v. Jackson has generated turmoil in the lives of many feminist educators and their students. Although the final decision will not be released until this summer, experts agree that it is unlikely to change much from the leaked draft. Long-time…
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Invitational rhetoric is powerful, but it needs a collective!
By: Aspen Grove Collective: Liz Bolton, Audrey Coble, Delcenia Cosman, Tara Knight, Diana Saverin, and Sarah Stanley – In the fall semester of 2021, four first-year graduate students, and one adjunct instructor and academic advisor, were connected to team-teach an asynchronous, first-year composition course. Our approach to team teaching used invitational rhetoric as a strategy…