Abstracts
Abstract
Using our work together on an upper-level undergraduate English course as an example, we illustrate that a just combination of librarian and faculty skills and labor, made visible to each other and to students, creates the conditions to enact a transformative student-centered pedagogical approach with special collections as a site of learning and activism. However, we first had to recognize, reflect on, and reject the power dynamics that pervade librarian-faculty collaboration. We will expound on our shared critique of power within the neoliberal corporatized academy that helped us get beyond the conventional librarian-faculty teaching partnership to experiment with critical pedagogies of possibility and enact a feminist praxis; modeling and cultivating interdependent confidence and vulnerability to empower students to be free and creative thinkers.
Keywords:
- Black feminist thought,
- critical librarianship,
- librarian-faculty collaboration,
- pedagogy,
- special collections
Résumé
En se servant de notre collaboration dans le cadre d'un cours d'anglais de premier cycle à titre d’exemple, où la salle de classe des collections spéciales sert de site d'apprentissage et d'activisme, nous démontrons qu'une juste combinaison des compétences et du travail des bibliothécaires et des enseignants, rendus visibles les uns aux autres et aux étudiants, crée les conditions nécessaires pour mettre en oeuvre une approche pédagogique transformatrice centrée sur l'étudiant. Cependant, nous avons d'abord dû reconnaître, réfléchir à et rejeter les dynamiques de pouvoir qui imprègnent la collaboration entre bibliothécaires et professeur.e.s. Nous exposons notre critique commune du pouvoir au sein de l'académie néolibérale corporatisée qui nous a aidées à outrepasser le partenariat conventionnel entre bibliothécaire et professeur pour ensuite expérimenter des pédagogies critiques transformatives ainsi qu’une praxis féministe et modeler et cultiver la confiance et la vulnérabilité interdépendantes, permettant aux étudiants d’agir en penseurs libres et créatifs.
Mots-clés :
- bibliothéconomie critique,
- collaboration bibliothécaire-professeur.e,
- collections spéciales,
- pédagogie,
- pensée féministe Noire
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