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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Page ix
... Weiler situates her analysis in the view that power, as both the medium and the expression of wider structural relations and social forms, positions subjects within ideological matrixes of constraint and possibility.
... Weiler situates her analysis in the view that power, as both the medium and the expression of wider structural relations and social forms, positions subjects within ideological matrixes of constraint and possibility.
Page x
... order which denies their realization.2 In attempting to develop this position further theoretically, Weiler turns to feminist theory to illuminate how human agency is opera- tionalized in particular forms of resistance and struggle.
... order which denies their realization.2 In attempting to develop this position further theoretically, Weiler turns to feminist theory to illuminate how human agency is opera- tionalized in particular forms of resistance and struggle.
Page xii
She rightly criticizes those dogmatic strands within critical pedagogy which assume that a theoretically correct position is all that is needed for students to acquire an alternative reading of the world. She also rejects the prevailing ...
She rightly criticizes those dogmatic strands within critical pedagogy which assume that a theoretically correct position is all that is needed for students to acquire an alternative reading of the world. She also rejects the prevailing ...
Page xiv
For a similar analysis of this position, see Peter McLaren, review of God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School, by Alan Peshkin, in American Journal of Education (forthcoming). 5. David Lusted, "Why Pedagogy?
For a similar analysis of this position, see Peter McLaren, review of God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School, by Alan Peshkin, in American Journal of Education (forthcoming). 5. David Lusted, "Why Pedagogy?
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... underlying view that students are shaped by their experiences in schools to internalize or accept a subjectivity and a class position that leads to the reproduction of existing power relationships and social and economic structures.
... underlying view that students are shaped by their experiences in schools to internalize or accept a subjectivity and a class position that leads to the reproduction of existing power relationships and social and economic structures.
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Contents
| 1 | |
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 |
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Page xiv - The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention.
Page 130 - Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker's intentions, it is populated - overpopulated - with the intentions of others. Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process.
Page 58 - A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
Page 15 - The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
Page 16 - Every social group, coming into existence on the original terrain of an essential function in the world of economic production, creates together with itself, organically, one or more strata of intellectuals which give it homogeneity and an awareness of its own function not only in the economic but also in the social and political fields.
Page 15 - Hegemony, in this sense, might be defined as an 'organizing principle...
Page 26 - I mean to imply not simply the tracing of descent through the father . . . but any kind of group organization in which males hold dominant power and determine what part females shall and shall not play, and in which capabilities assigned to women are relegated generally to the mystical and aesthetic and excluded from the practical and political realms, (p.
Page 15 - The personality is strangely composite: it contains Stone Age elements and principles of a more advanced science, prejudices from all past phases of history at the local level and intuitions of a future philosophy which will be that of a human race united the world over.
Page 63 - It requires, further, that the mythology of 'hygienic' research with its accompanying mystification of the researcher and the researched as objective instruments of data production be replaced by the recognition that personal involvement is more than dangerous bias — it is the condition under which people come to know each other and to admit others into their lives.
Page 30 - ... sex-blind. Only a specifically feminist analysis reveals the systemic character of relations between men and women. Yet feminist analysis by itself is inadequate because it has been blind to history and insufficiently materialist. Both marxist analysis, particularly its historical and materialist method, and feminist analysis, especially the identification of patriarchy as a social and historical structure, must be drawn upon if we are to understand the development of western capitalist societies...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class & Power Critical studies in education series |
| Author | Kathleen Weiler |
| Publisher | Greenwood Publishing Group, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0897891287, 9780897891288 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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