Politics of Education: Essays from Radical Teacher

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Susan Gushee O'Malley, Robert C. Rosen, Leonard Vogt
State University of New York Press - Education - 357 pages
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This book brings together thirty of the best essays from Radical Teacher. The journal is devoted to feminist and socialist approaches to teaching to showing teachers how to democratize the classroom and empower students.

The articles included here have been chosen for their continuing usefulness to school and college teachers with emphasis on critical pedagogy as well as radical course content. These essays provide not only a wealth of ideas for teachers already involved in radical education but also an accessible, readable, and wide-ranging introduction for those new to it.
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Teaching Womens Studies
9
Lesbianism 101
22
Teaching Racism and Sexism in a Changing America
35
A Seminar
46
Teaching History and Social Science
63
Teaching Nazi Culture
70
Revising the Literary Canon
87
Working with Contradictions
195
Race Sex and Class in Science
207
Radical Math
219
A Black Womans Journey
230
Sectionl Education as Oppression
247
Standardized Testing at jFK High
258
The Doctrine of Separate Spheres in Elementary Education
266
The View from the Other Side
282

A Case for Black
99
Teaching Literature and Teaching Film
141
Notes on Teaching Masculinity
154
Reconciling Native Son and Native Daughters
163
Teaching the Hollywood Western
177
Teaching Writing
185
PartTime Teaching at
289
London Teaching Diary
295
Homophobia in the Schools Or What We Dont
302
Feminists and Contracts
312
radicalteacher definition
339
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Susan Gushee O Malley teaches English at Kinsborough Community College (CUNY) and is editorial chairperson of Radical Teacher.

Robert C. Rosen, a member of the Radical Teacher editorial board, teaches English at William Paterson College.

Leonard Vogt is professor of English at Laguardia Community College (CUNY), and he is also a member of the Radical Teacher editorial board.

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