Teaching for social change: introducing ‘scrapbooking’ as a pedagogic approach towards ending gender-based violence

Walling-Wefelmeyer, Rosa; Johnson, Kelly; Westmarland, Nicole; Dhir, Alishya; Lyons Sumroy, Asha

Abstract

This article introduces and evaluates ‘scrapbooking’ as a critical pedagogic approach to gender-based violence (GBV). This approach is inspired by the rapid development of conceptual and methodological tools for researching violence and abuse and the need for their translation into transformative teaching. Drawing on a feminist methodology of ‘research conversations’, but original in its development of ‘pedagogic conversations’, this research advocates further empirical attention to GBV teaching and presents its own four ‘lessons learnt’ from experimenting with scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is argued to facilitate not only the translation of GBV research into teaching, but also affective and embodied consciousness-raising and continuum-thinking in both students and tutors.

Citation

Walling-Wefelmeyer, R., Johnson, K., Westmarland, N., Dhir, A., & Lyons Sumroy, A. (2023). Teaching for social change: introducing ‘scrapbooking’ as a pedagogic approach towards ending gender-based violence. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 7(1), 128-145. https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021x16661126604534

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 18, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Nov 21, 2022
• Publication Date: 2023-02
• Deposit Date: May 15, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 22, 2023
• Journal: Journal of Gender-Based Violence
• Print ISSN: 2398-6808
• Electronic ISSN: 2398-6816
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 128-145
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021x16661126604534
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1175162
• Related Public URLs: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/293094/