Women and Education Praxis Paper:
Personal Experience in Education “The most beautiful thing about education is that no one take it away from you” (A Day in Our Shoes.com, 2013). Utilizing the feminist pedagogy has been essential to shaping my education and my occupational experience as a student and teacher. It has been empowering on many levels and shown me how through feminist theory women and girls can be empowered to live within oppression. Through feminist pedagogy I feel empowered through the stance that I have been thought to show compassion and empathy to all in all circumstances. The feminist ideals encircle the empowerment of everyone and ensuring that everyone feels valued and as an equal to others. It is important that within …show more content…
As a nursing student, I hold a lot of knowledge in relation to health, but the patient that I am caring for has the most knowledge about himself or herself and they know that is best for them. Through the feminist pedagogy and through my own personal experience as a patient I have learned to seek knowledge through others experiences and learn from them. By providing patient centered care and focusing on what I can learn from the patient and their family I can learn to provide the best care to my patients. As well the feminist pedagogy can empower me to focus on women within my chosen career as a nurse. I have learned women are often marginalized and underserviced within healthcare and it is important that I can teach others to treat women as equals and do more research in health care for women and their experiences. Men are the primary research candidates when it comes to health care research therefore women will not experience the treatments or have the same options as men, through feminist pedagogy I learned to advocate for more females within the research area, therefore we can have the best evidenced based practice to treat the female gender within healthcare (Ross-Kerr, Wood, Astle, & Duggleby, …show more content…
Often within the sciences the anatomy is male, the research participants are male, the priority is given to male students. I feel a more fluid concept of gender as described within the feminist pedagogy, is key to changing the perspective of learning and education. As well the changing of a more fluid definition of gender can help to alleviate many of the oppressing constraints on people within society, not just women. The more that we share our experiences and come up with ways to change our current systems the less likely we are to contribute that oppression that people experience. Author Frances Maher (1987) writes “the histories, experiences, and consciousness of other groups, whether women, all people of color, or all working-class people, are either ignored condemned as inferior, or judged as deviant.” Thus this is not a new concept that with a feminist pedagogy empowering teachers and student we can change how society constructs gender and how we treat these people that are feelings marginalized by
Personal Experience in Education “The most beautiful thing about education is that no one take it away from you” (A Day in Our Shoes.com, 2013). Utilizing the feminist pedagogy has been essential to shaping my education and my occupational experience as a student and teacher. It has been empowering on many levels and shown me how through feminist theory women and girls can be empowered to live within oppression. Through feminist pedagogy I feel empowered through the stance that I have been thought to show compassion and empathy to all in all circumstances. The feminist ideals encircle the empowerment of everyone and ensuring that everyone feels valued and as an equal to others. It is important that within …show more content…
As a nursing student, I hold a lot of knowledge in relation to health, but the patient that I am caring for has the most knowledge about himself or herself and they know that is best for them. Through the feminist pedagogy and through my own personal experience as a patient I have learned to seek knowledge through others experiences and learn from them. By providing patient centered care and focusing on what I can learn from the patient and their family I can learn to provide the best care to my patients. As well the feminist pedagogy can empower me to focus on women within my chosen career as a nurse. I have learned women are often marginalized and underserviced within healthcare and it is important that I can teach others to treat women as equals and do more research in health care for women and their experiences. Men are the primary research candidates when it comes to health care research therefore women will not experience the treatments or have the same options as men, through feminist pedagogy I learned to advocate for more females within the research area, therefore we can have the best evidenced based practice to treat the female gender within healthcare (Ross-Kerr, Wood, Astle, & Duggleby, …show more content…
Often within the sciences the anatomy is male, the research participants are male, the priority is given to male students. I feel a more fluid concept of gender as described within the feminist pedagogy, is key to changing the perspective of learning and education. As well the changing of a more fluid definition of gender can help to alleviate many of the oppressing constraints on people within society, not just women. The more that we share our experiences and come up with ways to change our current systems the less likely we are to contribute that oppression that people experience. Author Frances Maher (1987) writes “the histories, experiences, and consciousness of other groups, whether women, all people of color, or all working-class people, are either ignored condemned as inferior, or judged as deviant.” Thus this is not a new concept that with a feminist pedagogy empowering teachers and student we can change how society constructs gender and how we treat these people that are feelings marginalized by