Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments
Zine-making 101: Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments
When Postdoctoral Fellow Amanda Greer developed the syllabus for her course, ENGL391: Girlhood Cinemas, she wanted to ensure that girlhood was taken seriously as an experience directly impacting visual culture. Greer wanted to create an assignment that allowed students to communicate their ideas through girlhood aesthetics. She developed a zine-making assignment which fostered creative collaboration between classmates and critical thinking through the act of making, as well as enabled students to relate to the material on a personal level.
Greer argues "The zine as feminist pedagogy allows students to take up space in a world that feels increasingly unstable and inhospitable, to make sense of this world through a medium that celebrates the fragmentary, the illogical, the angry, the absurd."
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