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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... attempt to respond to these critiques and to respond to criticisms that in the long run his description of the lads ' resistance is a sophisticated variety of reproduction theory , Willis later attempted to clarify his analysis of the ...
... attempt to create what I have called a feminist counter - hegemony . This is expressed in feminist teachers ' articulation of what they feel is being attempted , what is achieved , and what makes success or failure possible . These ...
... attempt to put into practice a vision of the classroom that is deeply humane and critical . While both admin- istrators and teachers are bound by institutional constraints , they do have room to negotiate and create change . In this ...
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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