Combating Racialized and Gendered Ignorance: Theorizing a Transactional Pedagogy of Friendship

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dc.contributorVirginia Techen
dc.contributor.authorOlson, Philipen
dc.contributor.authorGillman, Laura J.en
dc.date.accessed2014-01-31en
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-18T16:35:07Zen
dc.date.available2014-02-18T16:35:07Zen
dc.date.issued2013en
dc.description.abstractThe article explores the problem of epistemological ignorance. Drawing on the literature of feminist epistemology, in particular the epistemologies of ignorance, it theorizes white ignorance and male ignorance and how it is possible to gain consciousness about one's ignorance, as well as how to be responsible for what one does not know. The article explores ignorance as unconscious habits that inform our mental schemas, our social interactions, and our physicality. It identifies and analyzes these habits of ignorance, drawing on our experiences as team teachers (one a philosophy professor, and the other a professor of women's studies and literary studies) who co-taught an interdisciplinary doctoral seminar in feminist epistemology. It describes and illustrates the pedagogical and scholarly processes that led us to view epistemology as a practice of inquiry that combats ignorance by demanding an inclusive partnership across traditional and counterhegemonic approaches to knowledge. The article claims that a transactional pedagogy of friendship makes possible the disruption and rehabituation of epistemic habits of ignorance, moving inquirers in the direction of more inclusive, reliable, and responsible knowledge.en
dc.identifier.citationOlson, P. & Gillman, L. (2013). Combating Racialized and Gendered Ignorance: Theorizing a Transactional Pedagogy of Friendship. Feminist Formations 25(1), 59-83. doi: 10.1353/ff.2013.0011en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2013.0011en
dc.identifier.issn2151-7371en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25450en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ff/summary/v025/25.1.olson.htmlen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins Univ Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectepistemologies of ignoranceen
dc.subjectfeminist epistemologyen
dc.subjectfriendshipen
dc.subjectinterdisciplinary team-teachingen
dc.subjectseparatism|transactional pedagogyen
dc.titleCombating Racialized and Gendered Ignorance: Theorizing a Transactional Pedagogy of Friendshipen
dc.title.serialFeminist Formationsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden

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