"Integrative Feminist Pedagogy, C. G. Jung and the Politics of Visualization" (original) (raw)

Abstract

I will discuss in this paper how a new modality of learning and teaching-the politics of visualization-may help integrative feminists meet a challenge of the 1990s; to release the blocked energies, imaginations and intellects of women from a myriad of cultural backgrounds. By showing how the enlightenment models of teaching and learning are being revamped in the wake of the debates on inclusivity and pedagogy, I will describe the emergence of "visionwork" as central to pedagogical renewal. "Visionwork"-an abbreviation for the politics of visualization-is an umbrella term for all strategies of creative self-knowledge that women in different communities across time and

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