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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... teach- ers place themselves in the position of bringing contradictions and tensions to light in their teaching . This kind of critical teaching within dominant institutions can be isolating and frustrating . Thus the pres- ence of ...
... teachers and the re- sponses to their teaching by students of a variety of different subjectivities . GENDER , RACE , AND CLASS IN CLASSROOM DISCOURSE Feminist teaching in a public high school takes place within the culture of the wider ...
... teachers . Teachers need to have their work as intellectuals respected and rec- ognized . Teaching is valuable and highly political work and both teach- ers and those outside the schools need to recognize the value of that work . But ...
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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