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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Table of Contents Introduction by Henry A. Giroux and Paulo Freire ix CHAPTER ONE Critical Educational Theory 1 CHAPTER TWO Feminist Analyses of Gender and Schooling 27 CHAPTER THREE Feminist Methodology 57 CHAPTER FOUR The Dialectics ...
... this book an immense theoretical and political project, a project born out of her recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of different strands of radical educational theory as they have developed within the last fifteen years.
... 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.
But the strength of Weiler's book goes far beyond her ability to reconstruct and advance the theoretical gains made by previous radical and feminist theories of education and pedagogy. Weiler also brings into focus a wide range of ...
Women Teaching for Change represents a breakthrough in critical feminist work in its analysis of the achievements and obstacles ... Critical Educational Theory SINCE THE EMERGENCE of the women's movement xiv Women Teaching for Change.
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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 |