This section focuses on the “habits of head,” or our ways of thinking and knowing in feminist pedagogy. What does it mean to know? How do we know what we know? See the pages below to learn more.
Framework for This Guide
In addition to the feminist assumptions we spell out in our introduction, we also bring an important assumption about teaching that serves as the framework for this guide. Namely, we should try to align our practices with our values and beliefs–what Lee Shulman calls “habits of hand” with “habits of heart and head” (56).
- Habits of head are our ways of thinking and knowing.
- Habits of heart are the values that guide us.
- Habits of hand are our practices, informed by our habits of head and heart.
The three aren’t completely independent of the others. Instead, they are interlocked and overlapping.
This framework comes from Lee Shulman’s notion of “signature pedagogies.” For more, read Lee Shulman’s “Signature Pedagogies in the Professions” or Nancy Chick, Aeron Haynie, and Regan Gurung’s “From Generic to Signature Pedagogies.”
Nancy L. Chick 