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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Gender, Class and Power Kathleen Weiler. recent origin , we have not yet begun to consider the ways in which feminists and feminist ideas may have affected actual practice in schools . Particularly lacking are ethnographic and ...
... woman teacher is unsupported and alone . The continued existence of sexism among the male staff in these schools makes the presence of feminist women administrators ex- tremely significant for feminist teachers like these . But equally ...
Gender, Class and Power Kathleen Weiler. realities of the classroom in which the gender , race , and class sub- jectivities of teachers and students come directly into conflict . The feminist views of teachers create tensions and ...
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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