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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These teachers and administrators are in the process of creating a critical pedagogy in their classroom teaching and in their encouragment and support of progressive schooling. Their work should be an inspiration to other teachers.
Women teachers have created courses addressing women and history, psychology, literature, and other disciplines; they have sought less authoritarian relationships in the classroom and are still in the process of a developing a feminist ...
... a view of social reality that in Althusser's sense create the subject. The appeal of Althusser's work for critical educational theorists concerned Critical Educational Theory 7.
In his analysis, the schools become the primary means through which subjects themselves are created. (As he says elsewhere, it is ideology which "interpellates," or creates the subject.) Moreover, Althusser's analysis locates schools ...
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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 |