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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Page 12
... meaning , but ignored the ideological and material forces of reproduction . As Geoff Whitty puts it , " the overemphasis on the notion that reality is socially constructed seems to have led to a neglect of the considerations of how and ...
... meaning , but ignored the ideological and material forces of reproduction . As Geoff Whitty puts it , " the overemphasis on the notion that reality is socially constructed seems to have led to a neglect of the considerations of how and ...
Page 128
... meaning is negotiated , imposed , and resisted by teachers and students of different subjectivities . In this ... meaning is both affirmed and contested by different students . Thus both the possibilities of and obstacles to ...
... meaning is negotiated , imposed , and resisted by teachers and students of different subjectivities . In this ... meaning is both affirmed and contested by different students . Thus both the possibilities of and obstacles to ...
Page 141
... meaning ; she wanted to develop a theory of so- cialization in order to build theoretical knowledge she would then use in the rest of the course . But for John , the passage had meaning out of his own experience of racism as a black boy ...
... meaning ; she wanted to develop a theory of so- cialization in order to build theoretical knowledge she would then use in the rest of the course . But for John , the passage had meaning out of his own experience of racism as a black boy ...
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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