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À la fin des années 1970, les partisanes états-uniennes de la pédagogie féministe ont mis fortement l'accent sur l'importance de l'expérience dans le processus d'apprentissage, rejoignant en cela une tradition réformatrice de l'éducation portée, entre autres, par Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey et Paulo Freire. Les féministes libérales considéraient l'éducation comme un moyen pour que les femmes, en tant qu'individus, acquièrent des compétences intellectuelles et le pouvoir de se mobiliser en faveur de l'égalité des droits. Faisant écho à la pensée de Rosa Luxemburg et de Myles Horton, les féministes radicales, pour leur part, placèrent la pédagogie féministe dans le contexte d'une lutte contre l'oppression plus révolutionnaire et collective. Les féministes radicales et socialistes qui délivraient des cours dans l'enseignement supérieur se sont inspirées d'un processus de conscientisation [consciousness-raising] combinant expérience, théorie, action et prise en considération du ressenti. Elles se retrouvèrent alors confrontées au problème de la théorisation et de la pratique de la pédagogie féministe dans un contexte d'institutions hiérarchiques et compétitives. Tout comme le mouvement féministe en général, elles ont dû trouver un moyen pour traiter les différences entre les étudiant·e·s au regard de leurs expériences, de leurs ressentis et de leurs idées au sujet du genre.

Socialists working in education face particular problems in trying to integrate their work with their political convictions. The recent Conference on the Political Economy of Higher Education held at New York University reflected some of these tensions & contradictions. The professor-as-movement-activist model is no longer applicable, given the disappearance of movements. Professors in different academic settings often have substantially different kinds of work experience. Graduate faculty have considerable freedom to explore novel ideas; liberal arts college faculty are more constrained, & while they often see the liberal arts tradition as offering a chance to make students more critical of society, the liberal arts colleges are under economic pressure leading to erosion of such curriculum content; the community college faculty often face difficulties in teaching students from working class backgrounds who seek job advancement, especially since such students may be more aware of the work experience than are their instructors. Organizational forms are needed to help Left faculty carry out their work. W. H. Stoddard.

Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Being childfree challenges the 'procreation imperative' residing at the center of our hetero-normative understandings, occupying an uneasy position in relation to—simultaneously—traditional academic ideologies and prevalent social norms. After all, as Adi Avivi recognizes, "if a woman is not a mother, the patriarchal social order is in danger." This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models. Foundational pieces from established experts on the childfree choice--Rhonny Dam, Laurie Lisle, Christopher Clausen, and Berenice Fisher--appear alongside both activist manifestos and original scholarly work, comprehensively brought together. Academics and activists in various disciplines and movements also riff on the childfree life: its implications, its challenges, its conversations, and its agency—all in relation to its inevitability in the 21st century. Childfree across the Disciplines unequivocally takes a stance supporting the subversive potential of the childfree choice, allowing readers to understand childfreedom as a sense of continuing potential in who—or what—a person can become