Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class & Power
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. |
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... its emphasis on how wider social forms reproduce the class-specific dimensions of inequality, with those aspects of feminist theory that stress the importance of consciousness, experience, and the subjective side of human relations.
... its emphasis on how wider social forms reproduce the class-specific dimensions of inequality, with those aspects of feminist theory that stress the importance of consciousness, experience, and the subjective side of human relations.
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As Philip Corrigan points out: At the heart of any analysis of social relations . . . there are always contradictions and, consequently, struggles. Generic struggles concern nothing less than the realization of human capacities — being ...
As Philip Corrigan points out: At the heart of any analysis of social relations . . . there are always contradictions and, consequently, struggles. Generic struggles concern nothing less than the realization of human capacities — being ...
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Weiler also brings into focus a wide range of questions concerning the relations of power and struggles that feminist administrators and teachers have to face in an urban public high school. In doing so, she breaks new theoretical ...
Weiler also brings into focus a wide range of questions concerning the relations of power and struggles that feminist administrators and teachers have to face in an urban public high school. In doing so, she breaks new theoretical ...
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With a similar clarity of insight, she analyzes how pedagogy, as part of the process of exchange that takes place within asymmetrical relations of power, always engages specific cultural forms and experiences which generate different ...
With a similar clarity of insight, she analyzes how pedagogy, as part of the process of exchange that takes place within asymmetrical relations of power, always engages specific cultural forms and experiences which generate different ...
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Instead, it foregrounds exchange between and over the categories, it recognizes the productivity of the relations, and it renders the parties within them as active, changing, and changeable agencies.5 For Weiler, voice is related to the ...
Instead, it foregrounds exchange between and over the categories, it recognizes the productivity of the relations, and it renders the parties within them as active, changing, and changeable agencies.5 For Weiler, voice is related to the ...
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Contenido
| 1 | |
CHAPTER TWO Feminist Analyses of Gender and Schooling | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE Feminist Methodology | 57 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Dialectics of Gender in the Lives of Feminist Teachers | 73 |
CHAPTER FIVE The Struggle for a Critical Literacy | 101 |
CHAPTER SIX Gender Race and Class in the Feminist Classroom | 125 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion | 147 |
Bibliography | 155 |
Index | 165 |
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Página xiv - The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention.
Página 130 - Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker's intentions, it is populated - overpopulated - with the intentions of others. Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process.
Página 58 - A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
Página 15 - The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
Página 16 - Every social group, coming into existence on the original terrain of an essential function in the world of economic production, creates together with itself, organically, one or more strata of intellectuals which give it homogeneity and an awareness of its own function not only in the economic but also in the social and political fields.
Página 15 - Hegemony, in this sense, might be defined as an 'organizing principle...
Página 26 - I mean to imply not simply the tracing of descent through the father . . . but any kind of group organization in which males hold dominant power and determine what part females shall and shall not play, and in which capabilities assigned to women are relegated generally to the mystical and aesthetic and excluded from the practical and political realms, (p.
Página 15 - The personality is strangely composite: it contains Stone Age elements and principles of a more advanced science, prejudices from all past phases of history at the local level and intuitions of a future philosophy which will be that of a human race united the world over.
Página 63 - It requires, further, that the mythology of 'hygienic' research with its accompanying mystification of the researcher and the researched as objective instruments of data production be replaced by the recognition that personal involvement is more than dangerous bias — it is the condition under which people come to know each other and to admit others into their lives.
Página 30 - ... sex-blind. Only a specifically feminist analysis reveals the systemic character of relations between men and women. Yet feminist analysis by itself is inadequate because it has been blind to history and insufficiently materialist. Both marxist analysis, particularly its historical and materialist method, and feminist analysis, especially the identification of patriarchy as a social and historical structure, must be drawn upon if we are to understand the development of western capitalist societies...
Referencias a este libro
Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, Revised Edition Deborah P. Britzman Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Identity and Language Learning: Gender, Ethnicity and Educational Change Bonny Norton Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class & Power Critical studies in education series |
| Autor | Kathleen Weiler |
| Colaboradores | Henry A. Giroux, Paulo Freire |
| Editor | Greenwood Publishing Group, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0897891287, 9780897891288 |
| Largo | 174 páginas |
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