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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... accepted as ap- propriate for women . Thus through their own choices , another gen- eration of women teachers was reproduced . But in interviews they did not view themselves as passive creations of " fate " or social struc- tures , but ...
... accepted social values and ideology . This entails the encouragement of a critical interrogation of the media and the messages of the school itself . One woman defines her goal in teaching students about the ideological messages they ...
... accepted gender roles in the organization of her classroom . She fre- quently breaks her class into groups to ... accepted relationships and thus calls into question the dominant / subordinate gender relationships to which they are ...
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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