Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2009
David W. Concepción, Juli Thorson Eflin
Pages 177-198
Enabling Change
Transformative and Transgressive Learning in Feminist Ethics and Epistemology
Through examples of embodied and learning-centered pedagogy, we discuss transformative learning of transgressive topics. We begin with a
taxonomy of types of learning our students undergo as they resolve inconsistencies among their pre-existing beliefs and the material they confront in our course on feminist ethics and epistemology. We then discuss ways to help students maximize their learning while confronting internal inconsistencies. While we focus on feminist topics, our approach is broad enough to be relevant to anyone teaching a transgressive or controversial topic.