African Gender Studies a Reader 2005
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_3
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Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology

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“…Nnaemeka (2005) goes so far as to say that studying and teaching other cultures is about merely surviving this precarious position with a huge dose of humility. This description does not bring visions of an all-powerful researcher who is able to 'take' what they want, whenever and however they want.…”
Section: Who Took What?mentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…Nnaemeka (2005) goes so far as to say that studying and teaching other cultures is about merely surviving this precarious position with a huge dose of humility. This description does not bring visions of an all-powerful researcher who is able to 'take' what they want, whenever and however they want.…”
Section: Who Took What?mentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Yet as world systems become more interconnected, researchers recognise that the global research context is demanding increased attention to the nature and influence of these interconnections (Nnaemeka, 2005). In response, more efforts have been made to consider how the tools of scholarship are themselves implicated in the multiple networks of power on a global scale (Lewis, 2005).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At early and mid-20th century, a sense of awareness swept through a handful of women who felt there was the need for enlightened women to reexamine their goals and aspirations so that the need to move them to high management positions could be pursued (Williams, 1993). She (Williams) as well as Okome and Nnaemeka (2005) note that the fastest and surest way to a better life, and ascension to the top careers in all walks of life, including a move away from the unpaid home job to the paid labor force, is through the attainment of a high level of education.…”
Section: Challenges For African Higher Education Transformationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…6 Escaping such egocentricity and individualism involves the construction of a different sort of gender theory and understanding of Southern feminist writing. 6 See also Nnameka (1998Nnameka ( , 2005. Mohanty argues that what is needed is a transnational multicultural feminism which is radical, antiracist and non-heterosexual and which can challenge a hegemonic capitalist regime; thus, the task that 'feminist educators, artists, scholars and activists face is that of historicising and denaturalising the ideas, beliefs and values of global capital such that underlying exploitative social relations and structures are made visible' (Mohanty, 2003c, p. 124).…”
Section: Challenging Northern Hegemonic Gender Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%