A Feminist Conversation About June King McFee’s Critical-Raising Foundation for Culturally Responsive Education (original) (raw)

Visual Arts Research, 2016

Abstract

Performing feminist conversation in non-feminist contexts is activism that draws attention to how gender—intersected with race, class, sexuality, and ability—is constructed, represented, and treated in affordances of power and privilege. Feminist conversations are integral to feminist pedagogy in which participants recognize the conversations as teaching in a way that includes the vantage points of those who have been excluded from knowledge production, while revealing the perspectives of those in positions of power. This essay represents a feminist conversation that developed during a critique of June King McFee’s work. The conversation took place as one of the 2016 Penn State colloquium sessions, a series of presentations about the landmark 1965 “Seminar in Art Education for Research and Curriculum Development” held at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). In 1965, only a few women and people of color were invited to the seminar table. June King McFee was the only woman,...

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