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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... structural characteristics of schooling reproduce the existing class structure by preparing students to be workers at various levels and in various relationships of production . Despite the influence of their work , they have been ...
... structural characteristics of schooling reproduce the existing class structure by preparing students to be workers at various levels and in various relationships of production . Despite the influence of their work , they have been ...
Page 67
... structure . Instead , it uses unstructured interviews and the analysis of classroom discourse to address the realities of these women's lives and to explore the themes that structure them . It is concerned with the ways in which ...
... structure . Instead , it uses unstructured interviews and the analysis of classroom discourse to address the realities of these women's lives and to explore the themes that structure them . It is concerned with the ways in which ...
Page 124
... structure of schools and the contradictory and conflicting demands made upon teachers by the wider society and by the very structure of schools themselves . The high school teachers and administrators I have discussed here work within ...
... structure of schools and the contradictory and conflicting demands made upon teachers by the wider society and by the very structure of schools themselves . The high school teachers and administrators I have discussed here work within ...
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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