{"id":2369,"date":"2014-11-13T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/carynriswold\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2014-11-11T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T20:09:49","slug":"feminist-scholarship-pedagogies-at-nwsa2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/carynriswold\/2014\/11\/feminist-scholarship-pedagogies-at-nwsa2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Scholarship & Pedagogies at #NWSA2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"NWSA-2014\"I\u2019ve escaped the cold blast hitting the Midwest this week by heading to the National Women\u2019s Studies Association<\/em> annual conference<\/a> in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

Today, I am spending time in a workshop for Program Administrators and Developers<\/a>, as a former chair and founding member of the Gender & Women\u2019s Studies Program at Illinois College<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to spending time with other colleagues who share the challenges and opportunities of leading and shaping interdisciplinary programs that call for innovative teaching and learning at colleges and universities facing significant market challenges and cultural shifts.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be speaking on a panel that is specifically considering the NWSA\u2019s Tenure and Promotion Guidelines for Women\u2019s Studies,<\/a> a statement on Women\u2019s Studies Scholarship newly released by the organization with the goal \u201cto both aid candidates in navigating these barriers while calling for change in institutional practices.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Having served as chair of a GWS Program for about five years, and now serving as chair of the college\u2019s retention and promotion committee, I have some thoughts about the process and how scholars and teachers in women\u2019s studies can talk about our work in ways that both meet and transform\u00a0institutional and academic-cultural standards.<\/p>\n

Specifically, several things that are distinctive about women\u2019s studies as a field emerge in the guidelines.\u00a0 For scholars and educators in women\u2019s studies, some of these things can be and have been impediments to navigating institutional tenure and promotion processes.\u00a0 This includes the fact that women\u2019s studies has always been inter- and multi-disciplinary as a field<\/strong>, often causing tension between faculty navigating competing expectations of departments on campuses.\u00a0 The guidelines also note that women\u2019s studies scholarship has often and taken place in unconventional forms<\/strong>, including new media and via partnership with community leaders.\u00a0 Finding a place within tenure and promotion criteria to value an essay co-authored with the director of the local homeless shelter based on students work in the community, or a hundred published pieces on a nationally read blog, proves to be a challenge at some institutions.\u00a0 \u00a0Additionally, as the guidelines point out, those of us working in the field are inherently critical of systems of power<\/strong> and often likely to have our work viewed skeptically.<\/p>\n

Rather than impediments, though, feminist scholarly and pedagogical strategies are the things that are shown to increase levels of student learning, student engagement, and the all important factor of student retention. \u00a0This all in fact predated what the national academy now recognize as \u201chigh-impact educational practices<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0The Association of American Colleges & Universities<\/a><\/em> (AAC&U) and its project on Liberal Education and America\u2019s Promise<\/a><\/em> (LEAP) highlights and discusses these things at length, including integrative learning in such models as learning communities, civic and community engagement, global learning and diversity, and collaborative learning<\/strong>. \u00a0If candidates are able to frame their work in light of this national conversation, and institutions are able to understand the proven value of this work and alter their criteria appropriately, practices and processes can\u00a0change in significant ways.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019d suggest has often been the case, feminists, scholars, and educators in women\u2019s studies have been ahead of the curve on this one.\u00a0 It\u2019s good to see that the national academy has seen the light.<\/p>\n

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