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Deborah Byrd

Affiliation: Lafayette College

Deborah Lea Byrd is Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Lafayette College. She is lead editor of Teaching Troubles: Feminist Pedagogy Across the Disciplines (Institute for Teaching and Research on Women, 2010). In collaboration with local non-profit agencies and students enrolled in her WGS service-learning courses, Debbie also serves as Project Director of Easton Area Neighborhood Center’s Family Development Research Program, a highly successful mentoring program for pregnant and parenting teens enrolled at a large public high school.

Books by Deborah Byrd

Maternal Pedagogies

In and Outside the Classroom

Edited by Deborah Byrd, Fiona Green

Maternal pedagogies is a term the co-editors use to describe scholarship that examines from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, cultures, and subject positions (1) ways in which culturally dominant ideologies about motherhood are taught or challenged, (2) ways in which various paradigms of maternal thinking, being, and acting are constructed, embedded, enacted or resisted in specific teaching and learning situations—including those that take place outside classroom and school settings, (… (more information)