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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She is sensitive to the importance of legitimizing the voice of "the other(s)" while simultaneously holding such voices up to interrogation and critique. She seeks to wed intellect and emotional investment ...
For Weiler, the language of critique and possibility are dialectically related to both what we teach and how we teach — inseparable activities that bring students and teachers together through the constituting power of both theory and ...
Critical Educational Theory SINCE THE EMERGENCE of the women's movement in the late 1960s, academic disciplines in all fields have been subjected to various levels of feminist critique and analysis. This broad feminist movement has ...
In other words, we don't know what is happening in schools in which feminist teachers are actively critiquing and analyzing sexism in texts and the media, teaching the history of women, or discussing such issues as sexual harassment in ...
Moreover, Althusser's analysis locates schools within the context of a wider critique of capitalist society. His analysis appears to open the way for a deeper understanding of the ways in which schools function according to the logic of ...
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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 |