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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... middle - class population with a fairly large number of students from strongly ethnic and recent im- migrant families . Urban schools increasingly must meet the needs of these kinds of students as the high level of immigration to the ...
... high school and when she graduated from her working - class high school , went to an elite woman's college and considered majoring in physiology . But once she was there , the realities of her class experience and earlier choices began ...
... high school . Thus the students in school - within - a - school courses were already to some extent self - selected . The curriculum was organized around a series of electives and included courses on " women's studies " in both social ...
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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