Fight the power: situated learning and conscientisation in a gendered community of practice |
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| Authors: | Joe Curnow |
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| Institution: | Adult Education and Community Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St W, 7th Floor, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1V6 |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, I employ situated learning theory to explore gendered processes of marginalisation and conscientisation in a social movement organisation. Using a student activist organisation as a case study, I explain women's awareness of and resistance to masculine performances of leadership and decision-making through the concept of gendered communities of practice and legitimate peripheral participation. I explore how gender inequality is performed in a community of practice, and how it both impedes and facilitates learning and resistance through legitimate peripheral participation. I attempt to bridge situated learning and conscientisation to better theorise the learning and resistance that occur when people are marginalised within communities of practice. |
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| Keywords: | situated learning conscientisation consciousness-raising activism gendered community of practice social movement learning |
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