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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Writing as a feminist, Weiler develops a critical theory of schooling that illuminates how gender is socially constructed within institutional and ideological technologies of power that inform all aspects of school life.
... of absolute resistance and absolute domination in various strands of radical educational theory, Weiler attempts to develop a view of consciousness and subjectivity similar to what Sheila Rowbotham calls a "problematic potentiality.
... relations that the ideological and material space emerges within schools for developing the insights and forms of radical pedagogy necessary to organize gender, race, and class considerations as part of an emancipatory project.
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, ...
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 ...
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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 |