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 67
... women's lives and to explore the themes that structure them . It is concerned with the ways in which teaching may be seen as counter - hegemonic work and with theoretical issues of resistance to oppression and class and gender ...
... women's lives and to explore the themes that structure them . It is concerned with the ways in which teaching may be seen as counter - hegemonic work and with theoretical issues of resistance to oppression and class and gender ...
Page 69
... teachers who were more experimental and socially committed in their teaching . These kinds of struggles and conflicts around issues of educational policy were not unique to these two schools , but they do point out the ways in which ...
... teachers who were more experimental and socially committed in their teaching . These kinds of struggles and conflicts around issues of educational policy were not unique to these two schools , but they do point out the ways in which ...
Page 87
... women chose teaching as a career while they were undergraduates . For them , the choice to become a teacher reflected what they saw as the realities of their class and The Dialectics Of Gender In The Lives Of Women Teachers 87.
... women chose teaching as a career while they were undergraduates . For them , the choice to become a teacher reflected what they saw as the realities of their class and The Dialectics Of Gender In The Lives Of Women Teachers 87.
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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