Pregnant Pedagogy

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2012

Publication Title

Mothering a Bodied Curriculum: Theories and Practices of Relational Teaching

ISBN

978-1-4426-9684-6

Abstract

When I discovered in 2003 that I would be adding another child to the two I was already raising while teaching full-time and pursuing a doctoral degree, I found myself thinking about how this unexpected pregnancy would impact me as a teacher and a researcher. I had just begun to feel confident in my role as a budding scholar when suddenly I found myself in this awkward, ‘delicate’ position. In spite of what I had learned about unstable, shifting postmodern identities, I found myself in a circumstance intimately tied to my physical condition. This experience, coupled with my previous history...

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