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Physician Heal Thyself: Employing "Patient-Doctor" Communication Practices to Build "Student-Teacher" Bridges in the College Classroom
- CEA Critic
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 81, Number 1, March 2019
- pp. 36-41
- 10.1353/cea.2019.0006
- Article
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Abstract:
"As a feminist pedagogue who seeks to incorporate what Peggy Chinn calls the kind of 'thoughtful reflection and action … toward the goal of transforming the world' that is central to reversing the oftentimes invisible patriarchal hold that academics asserts on the individual, I mindfully reject pedagogical practices in which the teacher asserts her 'power over' her students. Instead, I work toward creating a classroom space in which students are free to seek personal empowerment and exercise personal power. Like Chinn, through my pedagogical practices, I strive to create a learning environment that will lead 'to growth, transformation, unity, justice, and peace.'"