{"id":696,"date":"2018-01-14T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T13:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/?p=696"},"modified":"2018-01-14T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T13:41:51","slug":"affect-inclusivity-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/14\/affect-inclusivity-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Affect &#038; Inclusivity in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affect, both genuine and performative, is essential to my teaching.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><span>It probably goes without saying that one needs to enter the classroom fired up with enthusiasm for the topic at hand. That should be the case if it\u2019s just about teaching film terminology and\/or cussing out deeper, ideological messages. As I gotten older, I\u2019ve also become less inhibited about sharing my gut-level reactions because I want to model for students that we all have them and they can provide a useful starting point. I\u2019ll show it, for instance, if I find a film sequence or literary passage particularly moving or, alternately, very problematic. If the latter is the case, I make it explicit if I\u2019m coming at things from a gendered point of view. If they don\u2019t like that lens, I tell them they should feel free to let me know if they think I\u2019m just being a strident feminist. That way the door to disagreement remains open and I can demonstrate, regardless of what gets said at that point, that I\u2019m genuinely open to any and all responses. Alternately, if a student tells me that Ethan Edwards in <\/span><i><span>The Searchers <\/span><\/i><span>is a very racist character, rather than nod emphatically in agreement I put on my poker face and say something like, \u201cThat\u2019s intriguing. Tell me more.\u201d Obviously, I can\u2019t always control the ways that students take on the mantle of provocateur, but I can make it clear that that posture always pricks my ears up. Above all, I try and model respect for students and a baseline humility that I hope fosters classroom collegiality. \u201cCitational practices\u201d are relevant for me in this regard. For me that means, in the straightforward sense, taking inspiration from and citing important thinkers that have influenced how I think about identity. But if students have written reaction pieces before class, I also try to cite their ideas and blend them with my own so that their voices are already present and already matter in class discussion. That kind of inclusivity hopefully impacts their interactions both in the classroom and beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014Maggie McCarthy, Davidson College<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affect, both genuine and performative, is essential to my teaching.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[34,36,37,35],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminist-practices","tag-affect","tag-citational-practices","tag-inclusivity","tag-performativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}