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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... theory that can place human action and consciousness in an historical and social context . We need to be able to ... feminist social and cultural theory . As I will explain , both of these traditions are concerned with the critical ...
... theory that can place human action and consciousness in an historical and social context . We need to be able to ... feminist social and cultural theory . As I will explain , both of these traditions are concerned with the critical ...
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... theory and feminist theory - is needed . Neither is adequate on its own . While critical educational theory has largely failed to recognize sexism as a significant issue to be addressed and as a result has failed to consider the ways in ...
... theory and feminist theory - is needed . Neither is adequate on its own . While critical educational theory has largely failed to recognize sexism as a significant issue to be addressed and as a result has failed to consider the ways in ...
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... feminist perspective is still needed : Socialist - or perhaps here I should say Marxist - because a Marxist way of ... theory . But I have also been influenced by a variety of feminist theorists who have concerned them- selves with ...
... feminist perspective is still needed : Socialist - or perhaps here I should say Marxist - because a Marxist way of ... theory . But I have also been influenced by a variety of feminist theorists who have concerned them- selves with ...
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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