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 xii
... knowledge they both bring to the classroom , as well as the knowledge they produce to- gether , Weiler extends the notion of radical praxis far beyond the ways in which it has been employed in radical educational theory . She rightly ...
... knowledge they both bring to the classroom , as well as the knowledge they produce to- gether , Weiler extends the notion of radical praxis far beyond the ways in which it has been employed in radical educational theory . She rightly ...
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... knowledge most nearly matches the val- ued knowledge of the educational system will tend to be most suc- cessful . Bourdieu and Passeron argue that valued school knowledge is , in fact , the cultural knowledge of the bourgeois class ...
... knowledge most nearly matches the val- ued knowledge of the educational system will tend to be most suc- cessful . Bourdieu and Passeron argue that valued school knowledge is , in fact , the cultural knowledge of the bourgeois class ...
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... knowledge in light of their own emotional , intellectual , and material needs : While the above suggests that women may not necessarily incorporate all " school knowledge " it should not be taken by any means to deny what school knowledge ...
... knowledge in light of their own emotional , intellectual , and material needs : While the above suggests that women may not necessarily incorporate all " school knowledge " it should not be taken by any means to deny what school knowledge ...
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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