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 51
... expressed in Giroux's remark that " inherent in a radical notion of resistance is an expressed hope , an element of tran- scendence . " ( 1983 , p . 108 ) Second , that that capacity to resist and to understand is limited and influenced ...
... expressed in Giroux's remark that " inherent in a radical notion of resistance is an expressed hope , an element of tran- scendence . " ( 1983 , p . 108 ) Second , that that capacity to resist and to understand is limited and influenced ...
Page 58
... expressed by de Beauvoir , that women must begin by defining them- selves as women . This starting point reflects central insights about the relationship of power , knowledge and language and calls into question the intellectual ...
... expressed by de Beauvoir , that women must begin by defining them- selves as women . This starting point reflects central insights about the relationship of power , knowledge and language and calls into question the intellectual ...
Page 60
... expression , prior to that moment at which experience can become " experience " in achieving social expression or knowledge , or can become " knowledge " by achieving that social form , in being named , being made social , becoming ...
... expression , prior to that moment at which experience can become " experience " in achieving social expression or knowledge , or can become " knowledge " by achieving that social form , in being named , being made social , becoming ...
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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| Title | Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power Critical studies in education series |
| Author | Kathleen Weiler |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic, 1988 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Aug 2007 |
| ISBN | 0897891279, 9780897891271 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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