A classroom of our own: Transforming interdisciplinarity locally
| Autor: | Päivi Korvajärvi, Jaana Vuori |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Development Space (commercial competition) 050905 science studies Structuring Education 050903 gender studies Transdisciplinarity Pedagogy Academic community Sociology 0509 other social sciences Social science Law Curriculum Autonomy media_common |
| Zdroj: | Women's Studies International Forum. 54:138-146 |
| ISSN: | 0277-5395 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.012 |
| Popis: | Synopsis This article analyses interdisciplinary practices produced and reproduced in Women's/Gender Studies teaching and curricula at the local level. In particular, the focus is on the role of communities of practice. The analysis shows that the interaction patterns in the WS/GS communities of practice have undergone fundamental transformations from informal networking within an emergent feminist academic community to diverse institutionally driven interaction platforms. Institutionally, WS/GS teaching has gone through stages of integration with other disciplines to autonomy and back to integration. Further, academic organizational practices, which are currently bound to university reforms, will probably have an increasing structuring role in the future of WS/GS teaching. At the same time, these processes have shown that academic structures are flexible and have indeed provided space for the autonomy of WS/GS, and space for developing interdisciplinarity towards transdisciplinarity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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