Gendered pedagogic identities and academic professionalism in Greek medical schools
Abstract
Feminist scholarship has considered how pedagogical identities and emotions are implicated in the gender politics of belonging and othering in higher education. This paper examines how gendered and embodied pedagogy is mobilized in Greek Medical Schools to construct notions of the ideal academic and assert women’s position women in Academic Medicine. I employ thematic analysis to illustrate that formations of pedagogy and academic professionalism are bound up with emotions and embodied practices of relating, connecting, creating learning communities, and promoting virtuous academic citizenship. Women’s gendered accounts of pedagogy and their boundary practices of identification demonstrate agency, intentionality, and operate as highly political actions of legitimacy and resistance within the patriarchal realm of Greek higher education. I argue that gendered discourses of pedagogy in Greek medical schools become resources for resisting neo-liberal notions of academic work, individualism, and women’s exclusion in the highly prestigious discipline of academic medicine in Greece.Citation
Tsouroufli, M. (2016) 'Gendered pedagogic identities and academic professionalism in Greek medical schools' Gender and Education, 30 (1) p45-58Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Gender and EducationAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2016.1262008Type
Journal articleLanguage
enDescription
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor and Francis in Gender and Education on 07/12/2016, available online: 10.1080/09540253.2016.1262008 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISSN
0954-0253,ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/09540253.2016.1262008
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