ABSTRACT
Self-love pedagogy exemplifies to teachers, the majority in the United States (US) being women, how to embrace personal authority to benefit students, selves, and the profession. Each teacher educator and teacher education student has been practicing relationship making their entire lives, providing each enough authority to draw from to develop ethical teaching practices. This chapter aims to guide students toward understanding feminisms, as part of critical theory, make room for populations that have been or are marginalized, their voices silenced by a more powerful dominant mainstream discourse. A postmodern feminist reading calls to question the essential sex-cisgender system that assigns males masculine characteristics and females feminine characteristics. The chapter introduces students' awareness of the gendered discourses in their worlds and provides them some language to make sense of them. To construct knowledge together, it discusses a language of feminism, and they share their experiences so it helps students to learn how feminism matters in their lives.
