Can We Build Feminist Classrooms?

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Session 5
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Frameworks and Controversial Issues in the Classroom (Table 10)

Abstract

There is nothing invisible about the violence facing socially positioned others like girls, women, gender non-binary people, world majorities, and migrants except the visible ways in which this violence is regularly and actively unacknowledged and dismissed. Acknowledging the continued need for building feminist classrooms (hooks, 2003), my research explores the beliefs, ideologies, and practices of a middle-school English (ELA) teacher in regard to, including or not, issues of critical feminism in their curriculum at a private school in the urban Southwest. This paper questions if ELA classrooms could potentially become transformative spaces for seeing and challenging structural gender and social inequality.

Author

• Sanjukta Sarkar, University of Arizona