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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... discourse and examines how these in- terests either enable or constrain the possibility for students to affirm their own experiences , challenge the authoritative text of the teacher , and take risks even if the political interests that ...
... DISCOURSE Feminist teaching in a public high school takes place within the culture of the wider school , and the institutional structure itself limits and shapes classroom discourse . The rigid structure of the school day , with 45 ...
... discourse of the class- room is not completely controlled by them . There is a " sub rosa " discourse in classrooms , made up of both verbal and nonverbal com- munication among students . ( Gilmore , 1983 ) As Bennett and Sola point out ...
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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