Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and PowerBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 174 pages 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. A fine book, a rich melding of critical theory in education, feminist literature, and pedagogical experience and expertise. Maxine Green, Columbia University |
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... Willis's study of working - class boys , Learning to Labour . As a research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies , Willis clearly has been in- fluenced by their collective work . Learning to Labour used the concept of ...
... ( Willis , 1977 , p . 56 ) Thus the lads were relegated to the lowest status jobs in society by their own acts of resistance . In rejecting the emptiness of credentials and techn- ocratic mental work , they also rejected analysis itself ...
... Willis , the weakness of previous theories of social reproduction is that they have been concerned with " only general features of rela- tionship , " with the subsequent danger of functionalism and the ab- sence of any theory of ...
Contents
CHAPTER TWO Feminist Analyses of Gender | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE Feminist Methodology | 57 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Dialectics of Gender in | 73 |
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