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, ...
Instead, the interests of domination and resistance mutually inform each other, and it is in such contradictory relations that the ideological and material space emerges within schools for developing the insights and forms of radical ...
... (neutral transmitter of knowledge as well as "state functionary"), the learner as "empty vessel" or passive respondent, knowledge as immutable material to impart. Instead, it foregrounds exchange xn Women Teaching for Change.
knowledge as immutable material to impart. Instead, it foregrounds exchange between and over the categories, it recognizes the productivity of the relations, and it renders the parties within them as active, changing, and changeable ...
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 |