Occasional Guest Speaker Seminar
CHEER & the Paulo Freire Institute, UK
Wednesday 20th March, 5pm
Room 104, Fulton
Speakers
Professor Gill Crozier, University of Roehampton,
Professor Becky Francis, King’s College, London &
Dr Barbara Read, University of Glasgow
present:
Formations of Gender and Higher Education Pedagogies
* Plus introduction by Professor Penny Jane Burke, University
of Sussex
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The policy agenda to widen participation raises key questions about
teaching and learning approaches and the extent to which inclusion,
difference and diversity can be addressed through pedagogic
interventions. This research illuminates the intimate relationship
between pedagogies, gendered identity formations and inclusions,
exclusions and inequalities. It highlights the profound need for spaces
of critical reflexivity to be provided in higher education, not only in terms
of enriching approaches to widening participation, but also in valuing
teaching and learning and lecturers’ and students’ pedagogic relations
and experiences.
Widening participation presents rich pedagogical opportunities, but also
complex challenges. The research also sheds light on the ways that
institutions and policy-makers must acknowledge these challenges and
support lecturers in developing inclusive pedagogies that address
questions of difference and inequality.
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This seminar can be joined remotely by logging on to:
https://connectpro.sussex.ac.uk/cheer_pfiuk20march13
This seminar will also be recorded and available to view retrospectively at:
www.sussex.ac.uk/education/newsandevents/events/seminarscurrent