From the FLP mailbox:
Professing Feminism: Teaching Through the Digital Divide
Deadline: Dec. 15, 2014
Page limit 15-25 pages
Format: Email articles in MLA style. Double spaced. MSWord attachments only.
Contact: professingfeminism@hotmail.com
Professing Feminism,inspired by our own online teaching experiences in for-profit and not-for-profit higher education, will be a path-breaking anthology exploring feminist pedagogy and feminist content in online courses. Have you had experience teaching feminism online? How can your shared experience help facilitate the inclusion of feminist pedagogy and feminist content in the growth of online teaching thatis rapidly mushrooming?
We are open to essays that both critique and positively evaluate the potential for professing feminism in online work, in a variety of contexts. Submissions can cover any aspect of the experience of feminism, feminist pedagogy, online teaching and online learning.
We are especially interested in articles that address the following topics:
- Enacting a feminist pedagogy in online courses
- Feminism and for-profit schools
- Teaching other people’s feminism (teaching from prewritten courses in for-profit or not-for-profit online programs).
- Providing feminist context in classes that include women’s literature, but provide no feminist context to the works.
- Men and feminism in online classes.
- Encouraging feminism in composition classes (or any classes where feminist content is rarely found or emphasized).
- Academic hierarchy and feminism in online schools.
- Feminist collaboration:issues of isolation, networking and publishing as an online adjunct
- Addressing the stigma of teaching online and the divide between online and on ground schools and instructors.
- Addressing the negative perceptions of online teaching.
- The role of feminism in the new model of online teaching and for-profit schools
- Feminism’s role within the job preparation emphasis in online schools
About the Editors:
Melissa Rigney has over 10 years online teaching and course development experience in both for-profit and not-for-profit higher education. In addition to a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska, she also has an M.S in Educational Technology from Texas A&M.
Batya Weinbaum holds a doctorate in English from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has been teaching feminism online since 2007, and has been editing the journal Femspec since1997. Her scholarship, including writings on feminist pedagogy, has appeared in numerous venues, including Transformations, a journal of inclusive teaching practices. She has published three scholarly books, including a book with University of Texas Press, and has been included in numerous scholarly anthologies.
-Bridget Crawford
