Advances in Applied Sociology, 2024, 14, 175-185
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DOI: 10.4236/aasoci.2024.144012 Apr. 17, 2024 175 Advances in Applied Sociology
From Critical Feminist Theory to Critical
Feminist Revolutionary Pedagogy
Gianna Katsiampoura
Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract
Since 1996, Stuart Hall has written that no intellectual who truly wants to ful-
fill this role and no university that wants to face the 21st century with pride in
its adequacy can afford to ignore the racial and ethnic problems that plague
our world (Hall, 1996: p. 343). Indeed, we may claim that gender issues are
just as critical to the adequacy of educational institutions and educators. The
present work is based on the recognition of the difficulties that educators face
in translating social justice-based policy into an emancipatory pedagogy in
the classroom when the gender perspective is absent. Indeed, many of the dif-
ficulties that educators face today are due to the absence of a critical feminist
reading of the world, a point that has been recently highlighted in the relevant
literature (Gale de Saxe, 2016). In this work, I propose a Critical Feminist
Revolutionary Pedagogy based on the discussions about critical revolutionary
pedagogy and resistance practices thus offering educators the opportunity to
reflect on how education is a form of cultural politics and how practices such
as participation in reflective and critical discussions as well as reflection can
offer new ways of challenging the “traditional” nature of school education as
well as different sources of empowerment.
Keywords
Gender, Critical Feminism, Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy, Critical Theory,
Critical Education
1. Introduction: Theoretical Approaches to Gender
Relations
After approximately 200 years of women’s struggles for equality, it is now widely
accepted that the political and social movement known as feminism is multifa-
ceted and diverse, both in its historical manifestations and in its political and
How to cite this paper: Katsiampoura, G.
(2024). From Critical Feminist Theory to
Critical Feminist Revolutionary Pedagogy.
Advances in Applied Sociology, 14, 175-185.
https://doi.org/10.4236/aasoci.2024.144012
Received: March 5, 2024
Accepted: April 14, 2024
Published: April 17, 2024
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