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Week9 Blog
This week, I read the article "Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy" by Professor Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales. In this article, she described the difficulties she is facing being a mother and a professor. The two identities placed her in a dilemma that there are many doubts that come from the outsiders that blamed her not being competent as a mother or a professor at the same time. Except for the accusation of being an inadequate mother and professor, she also received the discrimination that judged her ethnicity. Even if she had so much self-sacrifice, professor Tintiangco-Cubales still felt pretty guilty that she cannot fully devote to her jobs. So she aimed to establish a pedagogy that focused on developing a reciprocal relationship between mothering and intellectual studies, which "can sustain a professor's health and psychological well-being". I am aware that being a mother is already hard enough, not even to mention other labels she had, and how she find a balance point between these identities. Not only in academia, women from minority race in the workplaces were also suffering from such blame, that enables them to question themselves, even though they did nothing wrong. But I am sure that more and more women these days will be able to protest their rights like Professor Tintiangco-Cubales.
Question: Does this pedagogy goes well these days?
Reference:
Valverde, K-L.C., "Fight the Tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy". New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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