A Healing Feminist Pedagogy in Teaching and Teacher Education

• In Event: Toward a Just Teacher Education: Examining Healing Pedagogies, Collaborative Practices, and Equity Dispositions

Abstract

This paper argues for a healing feminist pedagogy in teaching and teacher education. Grounded in bell hooks’ (2001) meditations on love, a healing feminist pedagogy requires that we recognize and name harm that has been done on a structural and personal level as well as notice when we feel most alive, well, and seen. We are teachers and a teacher educator who share stories from our own K-12 schooling experiences to open up how deconstructing these experiences from a healing feminist perspective drives us ethically and pedagogically. Finally, we discuss implications for teachers and teacher educators, arguing that these pedagogies of healing enliven and sustain teachers in both their work and lives.

Authors

• Elizabeth Wurzburg, University of Georgia

• Emma Callihan, University of Georgia

• Jennifer Casas, University of Georgia

• Macey Cherfoli, University of Georgia

• Deisy Camacho, University of Georgia

• Madden Robinson, University of Georgia

• Zubaida Adres, University of Georgia