Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class & Power
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. |
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On the contrary, she attempts to bridge the most critical aspects of reproduction theory, its emphasis on how wider social forms reproduce the class-specific dimensions of inequality, with those aspects of feminist theory that stress ...
Here is the clue to the ambivalence of "needs" which always combine both a reference to the full potential of human nature and, on the other hand, a partial acceptance of the existing order which denies their realization.2 In attempting ...
duced through ideological considerations and interests that confront the realities of school life through a project of possibility, that is, through a project that attempts to study reality in order to change it, to interrogate ...
... voice is related to the means whereby teachers and students attempt to make themselves present in history and to define themselves as active authors of their own worlds. Voice in this sense represents those multiple subjectivities, ...
In other words, she attempts to develop a critical pedagogy that authenticates voices which challenge prevailing sedimented meanings, celebrate cultural and political diversity, fight against the voices of bigotry and violence, ...
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Contents
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CHAPTER TWO Feminist Analyses of Gender and Schooling | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE Feminist Methodology | 57 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Dialectics of Gender in the Lives of Feminist Teachers | 73 |
CHAPTER FIVE The Struggle for a Critical Literacy | 101 |
CHAPTER SIX Gender Race and Class in the Feminist Classroom | 125 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion | 147 |
Bibliography | 155 |
Index | 165 |