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. educational theory . Thus critical reproduction theorists share certain methodological assumptions with traditional functionalist educa- tional theorists , and critical production theorists ...
Gender, Class and Power Kathleen Weiler. educational theory . Thus critical reproduction theorists share certain methodological assumptions with traditional functionalist educa- tional theorists , and critical production theorists ...
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... theorists differs from the earlier phenomenologically influenced theorists of the 1970s in significant ways . In the early 1970s , theorists steeped in the tradition of phenome- nological sociology developed theories of knowledge which ...
... theorists differs from the earlier phenomenologically influenced theorists of the 1970s in significant ways . In the early 1970s , theorists steeped in the tradition of phenome- nological sociology developed theories of knowledge which ...
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... theorists who have focused on the role of schools as ideological state appara- tuses . While these feminist reproduction theorists take somewhat dif- ferent approaches , they all share a common belief in the power of material historical ...
... theorists who have focused on the role of schools as ideological state appara- tuses . While these feminist reproduction theorists take somewhat dif- ferent approaches , they all share a common belief in the power of material historical ...
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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