Disruptive Pracademic Pedagogy Domestic Violence and Abuse and the feminist classroom

The ‘Feminist Classroom’ is used to describe any learning zone committed to equality, social justice and inclusion, embracing diversity as central to the learning of all participants in a positive and impactful way. This disruptive workshop takes an intersectional approach to issues in the ‘classroom’ utilising feminist pedagogy which boundary spans across the theory/practice, academic/practice gap in relation to the real world problem of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) utilising the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). After a brief introduction to core concepts being used in the session and a whistle stop tour of the UNSDG’s, we will first actively consider how social categories impact learners (students/colleagues/our) experience(s) of learning, engagement, and success per se. Exploring how learning is impacted by social categories and how we can respond to them in practical ways is a central component of this session. Participants will then move on to the main session of the workshop where we will undertake a number of activities (aided by both high and low tech) with participants being encouraged to actively reflect on their own scholarship/practice ’boundary spanning’ experience of learning and teaching, and in the facilitation of others learning. To do this participants will sample worked examples of feminist pedagogy at work to assist in creating and facilitating learning in a feminist classroom on how UNSDG’s can be incorporated to enhance learning in DVA to support change on a Micro, Meso and Macro level ‘glocally’ i.e. locally and globally. The workshop concludes by calling for a collaborative theory and practice i.e. ‘pracademic’ approach in addressing the social problem of DVA incorporating the UNSDG’s. This disruptive workshop is a must attend to those with a commitment to knowledge exchange in addressing inequality across practice, social activism and academic domains in the DVA arena.