The feminist classroom : dynamics of gender, race, and privilege
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The feminist classroom : dynamics of gender, race, and privilege
Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
Expanded ed
- : hard
- : pbk.
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Originally published in 1994 by BasicBooks
Bibliography: p. 305-314
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago. This expanded edition offers new material that rereads and updates previous chapters, including a major new chapter on the role of race. The authors offer specific new classroom examples of how assumptions of privilege, specifically the workings of unacknowledged whiteness, shape classroom discourses. This edition also goes beyond the classroom, to examine the present context of American higher education. Drawing on in-depth interviews and using the actual words of students and teachers, the authors take the reader into classrooms at six colleges and universities - Lewis and Clark College, Wheaton College, the University of Arizona, Towson State University, Spelman College, and San Francisco State University. The result is an intimate view of the pedagogical approaches of seventeen feminist college professors. Feminist scholars have demonstrated that American higher education has long represented a white, male, privileged minority. The professors here bring together the twin upheavals that have challenged this tradition: namely a rapidly changing student body and the more inclusive knowledge of feminist and multicultural scholarship. They uncover the voices, concerns and experiences of groups hitherto marginalized in higher education: women, people of color and working class students. Through concrete examples of classroom practice, the work of these professors challenge the traditional split between knowledge and pedagogy that has long characterized higher education.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Breaking Through Illusion, Again Chapter 3 Creating a Kaleidoscope: Portraits of Six Institutions Chapter 4 Mastery Chapter 5 Voice Chapter 6 Authority Chapter 7 Positionality Chapter 8 Toward Positional Pedagogies Chapter 9 Learning in the Dark Chapter 10 Looking Back, Looking Forward Chapter 11 Notes Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index
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