WUNRN
Call for Papers
to be included in a collection of essays entitled
Maternal
Pedagogies: In and Outside the Classroom
Demeter Press, publication date spring 2011
Co-edited by
Deborah Byrd, English & Women’s and Gender Studies,
Fiona Green, Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies,
What
is the relationship between mothering and teaching? Is there anything
distinctive about maternal pedagogies as conceptualized and implemented by
feminist women and men or by feminist communities and organizations? How
is maternal pedagogy practiced as an aspect of feminist mothering? How does
maternal pedagogy intersect with feminist motherliness, cultural bearing and
matroreform? How are maternal pedagogies influenced by the larger
cultural context in which they’re deployed? What goals and strategies are
central to practitioners of maternal pedagogies as they work within specific
settings and with particular kinds of individuals or groups (for example, teen
mothers, elementary or grad school students, the families of children with
disabilities, co-workers in an office setting)? Are maternal
pedagogies transferable from one context to another (for example, from the home
to the corporate world, from academia to community activism and/or the
non-profit sector)? In what ways do maternal pedagogies as practiced by
feminists resemble or differ from other kinds of feminist pedagogies or
“pedagogies of the oppressed”? Do maternal pedagogies tend to blur the
distinction between teacher and learner and if so, how and why? How do
issues of gender, race, class, (dis)ability, religion/spirituality and sexual
orientation operate in specific maternal pedagogies? How do maternal
pedagogies of the past or of other countries differ from those in modern-day
The above questions are meant to suggest the range of issues that we hope this collection will address. We are interested in receiving submissions from people of varying backgrounds, views, and interests, whether they be scholars, lawyers, parents, healthcare professionals, community activists, or employees of nonprofit organizations, government agencies, for-profit businesses, or educational systems and institutions.
A
250-word abstract and a 50-word biographical statement are due by
The
essay, which should be 15-18 pages double spaced, will be due
Anticipated
publication date is fall 2011, with a book launch at the October 2011
Association for Research on Mothering conference, which will focus on
“Mothering, Education, Teaching, Learning, and Pedagogy.”
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
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