Interactive session - feminist frontiers

This interactive session explores the feminist frontiers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. The goals of the session are: 1) to assist participants in developing their definitions of feminism; 2) to assist participants in developing their definitions of feminist pedagogy; and 3) to encourage participants to begin to explore specific ways to implement feminist pedagogy in their classrooms and ways it may be useful to engineering education. The session is of interest to faculty who are interested in new pedagogical methods and/or increasing diversity in their classrooms. Together we will consider our current understanding of feminism and review scholarly distinctions between types of feminism. Then we will explore the tenets of feminist pedagogy and how it is implemented in the classroom. Finally, we discuss how engineering education can benefit from feminist pedagogy. Examples and resources was shared with participants to make the ideas more concrete.