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Centering Marxist-Feminist Theory in Adult Learning. Using feminist extensions of Marxist theory, this article argues that a Marxist-feminist theory of adult learning offers a significant contribution to feminist pedagogical debates concerning the nature of experience and learning. From this theoretical perspective, the individual and the social are understood to exist in a mutually determining relationship, with a social world conceptualized as active human practice. The primary theoretical task is then to rearticulate the central relations of adult learning theory (the individual, the social, and experience), which necessitates a dialectical formation of social difference and oppression. This allows for an examination of the reification of experience as a core relation of adult learning theory and a reimagining of feminist praxis.

"1) that women fail to participate in class out of fear 95 or out of a general unwillingness to engage in the " showmanship " called for in the Socratic classroom, 96 (2) that some who begin to participate stop because they feel uncomfortable or unwelcome, 97 and (3) that some who are determined to participate and do participate, nevertheless, feel the pressure of speaking for all women."

Socratic Misogyny?-Analyzing Feminist Criticisms of Socratic Teaching in Legal Education

A very good description of what it's like to have a brain that works (or doesn't work!) like mine does.