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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... values of school and official state institutions . In both cases , these girls re- jected school values of propriety and behavior . They challenged dom- inant views of what a " proper girl " should be like by asserting the values of ...
... values gives these teachers a sense of their own worth and the value of their work , even in a society where it is often devalued . While " humanity " may be a vague term , the mean- ing it is given here is one of recognizing the value ...
... values and ideology . This entails the encouragement of a critical interrogation of the media and the messages of the school itself . One woman defines her goal in teaching students about the ideological messages they receive : To ...
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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