Politicising the "Personal": The Resistant Potential of Creative Pedagogies in Teaching and Learning "Sensitive" Issues

Autor/in	Pilcher, Katy
Titel	Politicising the "Personal": The Resistant Potential of Creative Pedagogies in Teaching and Learning "Sensitive" Issues
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 22 (2017) 8, S.975-990 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
DOI	10.1080/13562517.2017.1332030
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Student Attitudes; Qualitative Research; Neoliberalism; Creative Teaching; Social Change; Learning Processes; Higher Education; Controversial Issues (Course Content); Undergraduate Students; Sexuality; Gender Issues; Gender Differences; Semi Structured Interviews; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schülerverhalten; Qualitative Forschung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Creative thinking; Teaching; Kreatives Denken; Unterricht; Sozialer Wandel; Learning process; Lernprozess; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Controversial issues; Kontroverse; Sexualität; Geschlechterfrage; Geschlechterkonflikt; Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Drawing upon student narratives gleaned through qualitative interviews, this paper argues that teaching and learning "sensitive" issues surrounding gender and sexualities through "creative" pedagogies can be a mode of resistance against the reproduction of problematic social discourses, and to the negative impacts of neoliberalism on student's learning within higher education. The findings point to the importance of speaking about sensitive issues; the value of creative approaches for enhancing learning; and that together these can enable students to articulate an agenda for social change. Students saw the "personal as political"--of sharing personal journeys around sensitive issues as important. They further spoke of "apathy" in an neoliberal era of student "consumers" and how this could curtail "creative" teaching and jeopardise learning. Overall, it is argued that creative approaches to teaching and learning sensitive issues can invoke a resistant potentiality which exposes the 'hidden injuries' (Gill, 2010) of the neoliberal university. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01