Politicising the ‘personal’:the resistant potential of creative pedagogies in teaching and learning ‘sensitive’ issues

Abstract

Drawing upon student narratives gleaned through qualitative interviews, this paper argues that teaching and learning ‘sensitive’ issues surrounding gender and sexualities through ‘creative’ pedagogies can be a mode of resistance against the reproduction of problematic social discourses, and to the negative impacts of neoliberalism on student’s learning within higher education. The findings point to the importance of speaking about sensitive issues; the value of creative approaches for enhancing learning; and that together these can enable students to articulate an agenda for social change. Students saw the ‘personal as political’ – of sharing personal journeys around sensitive issues as important. They further spoke of ‘apathy’ in an neoliberal era of student ‘consumers’ and how this could curtail ‘creative’ teaching and jeopardise learning. Overall, it is argued that creative approaches to teaching and learning sensitive issues can invoke a resistant potentiality which exposes the ‘hidden injuries’ of the neoliberal university.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1332030
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC)
Additional Information: © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
Uncontrolled Keywords: creative pedagogies,gender,sexualities,sensitive issues,Education
Publication ISSN: 1470-1294
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 08:21
Date Deposited: 06 Jun 2017 13:10
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2017-05-28
Accepted Date: 2017-04-24
Submitted Date: 2016-11-21
Authors: Pilcher, Katy (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-5973-8251)

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