Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and PowerBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 174 pages Applying theory to practice, Women Teaching for Change reveals the complexity of being a feminist teacher in a public school setting, in which the forces of sexism, racism, and classism, which so characterize society as a whole, are played out in multiracial, multicultural classrooms. A fine book, a rich melding of critical theory in education, feminist literature, and pedagogical experience and expertise. Maxine Green, Columbia University |
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Page 21
... Giroux . ( Apple , 1979 ; 1982 ; Giroux , 1981 ) In Giroux's work in particular , there is an attempt to apply Marxist critical theory to the question of schooling and an attempt to clarify and expand the concepts of ideology ...
... Giroux . ( Apple , 1979 ; 1982 ; Giroux , 1981 ) In Giroux's work in particular , there is an attempt to apply Marxist critical theory to the question of schooling and an attempt to clarify and expand the concepts of ideology ...
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... Giroux has moved to an attempt to create an educational theory that can address the schools both as the means of social and cultural reproduction and as sites of the pro- duction of individual subjectivities and class cultures ...
... Giroux has moved to an attempt to create an educational theory that can address the schools both as the means of social and cultural reproduction and as sites of the pro- duction of individual subjectivities and class cultures ...
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... ( Giroux , 1983 , p . 22 ) But ideology also exists in what Giroux , following Gramsci , calls the realm of com- mon sense . Common sense refers to the level of everyday conscious- ness with its amalgam of unexamined assumptions ...
... ( Giroux , 1983 , p . 22 ) But ideology also exists in what Giroux , following Gramsci , calls the realm of com- mon sense . Common sense refers to the level of everyday conscious- ness with its amalgam of unexamined assumptions ...
Contents
CHAPTER TWO Feminist Analyses of Gender | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE Feminist Methodology | 57 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Dialectics of Gender in | 73 |
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