Presented as part of the Sustainable Farm School panel at the 2013 American Educational Studies Association

1. Feminist Philosophy Meets EcoJustice
Teaching for trust and transformation

2. Feminist epistemology meets ecojustice
Situated knower
Situated knowledge
Trust & Epistemic
dependence
+
Complex
interdependent
natural, social, cultural
systems
Deep cultural analysis
Community- or placebased pedagogy

3. Experiences
Situated
Knower
Perspectives
(Individuals-in-social-cultural-natural
ecological systems)
Interests
}
Diversity
Imagination
Collaboration
Reflexivity
Critical awareness

4. Situated
Knowledges
(Social, cultural, natural ecologies)
}
Collaboration
Cultural analysis
Collaboration
Diversity

5. Feminist
Epistemology
Fact of epistemic
dependence
}
Fact of epistemic
distance
Judgements of
trust as necessary
for sound
reasoning

6. Situated
Knowledge
Practices
Unjust Institutions & Relations
If you want
‘trust’, fight
for justice

7. CRITICAL &
TRANSFORMATIVE
A key dimension of education is the cultivation
of understandings, capacities, and
dispositions that enable students to be
responsible, reflective, and critically engaged
individuals-in-communities (ecological,
cultural, & social)

8. Philosophy & Social Justice

9. Ethics &
the treatment
of animals
Practices
Narrative &
worldview
Laws
Implications
Assumptions

10. Moral Community
Emotion
Complex
reasoning
Feel pain

11. Alternative
practices,
values, &
worldviews

12. Ethics
&
Animal
Research

13. Community action

14. References
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the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge.
Jaggar, Alison. (1983). Feminist Politics and Human Nature. Totowa, N.J: Rowman &
Allanheld, and Brighton, U.K: Harvester Press.
Jaggar, Alison. (1989). "Love -Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology,” Inquiry: An
Interdisciplinary Joumal of Philosophy, 32.
Martusewicz, Rebecca, Jeff Edmundson, & John Lupinacci. (2011). EcoJustice
Education: Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities. Routledge.
Scheman, Naomi. (2001). “Epistemology Resuscitated: Objectivity as Trustworthiness,”
in (En)Gendering Rationalities, ed. Sandra Morgen & Nancy Tuana, SUNY Press, 2001.