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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... develop a view of consciousness and subjectivity similar to what Sheila Rowbotham calls a " problematic potentiality ... develop this position further theoretically , Weiler turns to feminist theory to illuminate how human agency ...
... develop a view of consciousness and subjectivity similar to what Sheila Rowbotham calls a " problematic potentiality ... develop this position further theoretically , Weiler turns to feminist theory to illuminate how human agency ...
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... develop a critical pedagogy in which radical imperatives are constructed within school and classroom relations , imperatives which take empowerment to mean developing democratic social forms that enlarge and enhance those individual ...
... develop a critical pedagogy in which radical imperatives are constructed within school and classroom relations , imperatives which take empowerment to mean developing democratic social forms that enlarge and enhance those individual ...
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... developed . Teachers and administrators attempting to develop a critical pedagogy need to emphasize that the conflicts expressed in democratic and critical classrooms emerge from the exploitative and oppressive quality of U.S. society ...
... developed . Teachers and administrators attempting to develop a critical pedagogy need to emphasize that the conflicts expressed in democratic and critical classrooms emerge from the exploitative and oppressive quality of U.S. society ...
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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