The feminist classroom / Frances A. Maher, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault
- Bib ID:
- 1850919
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Maher, Frances A
- Description:
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- New York, NY : BasicBooks, 1994
- xiii, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0465033024
- Summary:
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This book provides an intimate view of how feminist teachers are revolutionizing higher education. Drawing on in-depth interviews and on-site observations, and using the actual words of students and teachers, the authors take the reader into the classrooms of seventeen feminist college professors 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. As these teachers integrate feminist and multicultural content into the curriculum, they demonstrate that pedagogy concerns not only "teaching techniques" but the whole process of the construction of knowledge in classrooms. Learning derives from relationships and interactions among teachers, students, and subject materials, not from any single perspective.
In showing how the integration of feminist and multicultural content revitalizes the classroom, the book portrays innovative teaching in action. Feminist and cultural studies scholars have demonstrated that American higher education has traditionally represented the world in terms of the perspectives and achievements of a dominant minority. To educate students for a complex multicultural World, the voices of those who have been excluded need to emerge. There is widespread concern today about the quality of teaching in our colleges, particularly the predominance of lecturing and passive modes of learning. This important book presents a vision of teaching that counteracts the silence and alienation these practices engender.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Breaking Through Illusion
- 2. Creating a Kaleidoscope: Portraits of Six Institutions
- 3. Mastery
- 4. Voice
- 5. Authority
- 6. Positionality
- 7. Toward Positional Pedagogies
- 8. Looking Back, Looking Forward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-291) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Tetreault, Mary Kay Thompson
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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