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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... of structural and institutional forces in shaping the ideological and material conditions of the work performed by school administrators and teachers. Yet Weiler is not content to work solely within the language of domination, ...
... practices that shape how time, space, language, and rules constitute and legitimate schooling as a wider field of systematic power and control.3 For Weiler, the school is a matrix of institutional, personal, and social forces ...
... that bring students and teachers together through the constituting power of both theory and practice, the discourse of radical authority, and the importance of the transformative integrity and force of concrete, lived experience.
It attempts to locate individual struggle and action in relation to larger economic and social forces. Writers about schooling, particularly in the United States, have tended to be deeply suspicious of theoretical studies.
We need to be able to encompass both individual consciousness and the ideological and material forces that limit and shape human action. Critical social theory, which is often written at a very high level of abstraction, is foreign to ...
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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 |