Does This Feel Empowering? Power Disruption and Knowledge Mobilization Through Critical Pedagogy

• In Event: 60.084 - Roundtable Session 20
  In Roundtable Session: 60.084-2 - Critical Pedagogy in Postsecondary Classrooms

Abstract

The extent to which critical pedagogy disrupts the relations of dominance inside postsecondary classrooms, or empowers students to take socially just action beyond the classroom has been debated and challenged for decades. Through the use of metissage, an interpretive inquiry method which interrogates individual autoethnographic writings as a collective, we provide insight into the challenges of breaking away from socialized responses and “living” critical pedagogy in the classroom. Additionally, our analysis maintains implications for converting the incipient dialogue across difference (within the classroom) into emancipatory change beyond the classroom.

Authors

• Rebecca D. Cox, Simon Fraser University

• Meaghan Dougherty, Douglas College

• Sue Lang Hampton, Simon Fraser University

• Christina Neigel, University of the Fraser Valley

• Kim Williams, University of the Fraser Valley