The Feminist Classroom - Softcover

Maher, Frances A.; Tetreault, Mary Kay Thompson

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ISBN 10: 0465023541 ISBN 13: 9780465023547

Publisher: Basic Books, 1995

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Drawing on interviews and on-site observations, the authors take the reader into the classrooms of seventeen feminist college professors at six colleges and universities. In showing how integrating feminist and multicultural content revitalizes the classroom, this book portrays innovative teaching in action..

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The Feminist Classroom takes us on a journey with seventeen differently situated feminist professors. As an anthropologist, I find compelling its ethnographic approach to the study of feminist classrooms in diverse institutional settings. As president of Spelman College, I applaud the classroom practices of my colleagues and their commitment to empowering Black women students.--Johnnetta B. Cole, president, Spelman College

The tensions, dilemmas, and exhilarating pleasures of feminist teaching converge in this fascinating book, which documents actual classroom give-and-take. In addition to observing, the authors interviewed the teachers and several students in each class. The result is a Rashomon portrayal of the same moment, differently perceived, as well as fresh insight into interactions between social positioning, experience, and learning.--Barrie Thorne, author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School

What makes this book so valuable and fascinating is the extraordinarily extensive fieldwork, which creates a vivid sense not only of how questions about race and gender intersect for college undergraduates, but also how the teachers actually present their classes, how the students react to what they read, where they grow angry, why they are led so often to disguise their own beliefs. In this respect it's a wonderfully human and believable work. . . .The book will richly fuel the national debate. It is very important and I hope it will be widely read.--Jonathan Kozol, National Book Award winner and author of "Savage Inequalities"

About the Author:

Frances A. Maher is professor of education at Wheaton College, where she coordinated the college's Balanced Curriculum Project, which integrated the study of women into introductory courses. She has written several articles exploring the principles and practices of feminist pedagogy and co-edited a special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly on feminist pedagogy. Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Portland State University. She is the author of Women in America: Half of History.

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