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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If the analysis of schooling and teaching I have presented is the product of a wider theoretical debate, the political and critical pedagogy I have documented here is the collective product of the women I interviewed.
Introduction by Henry A. Giroujc and Paulo Freire Kathleen Weiler has taken on in this book an immense theoretical and political project, a project born out of her recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of different strands of ...
... the existing order which denies their realization.2 In attempting to develop this position further theoretically, ... in theoretical and political terms, point to a view of schooling that is much more complex and contradictory than ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 |