Politics of Education: Essays from Radical TeacherThis 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. |
Contents
Feminist Values Guidelines for Teaching Methodology in Womens Studies | 11 |
Lesbianism 101 | 22 |
Teaching Racism and Sexism in a Changing America | 35 |
Women and Militarization A Seminar | 46 |
Teaching History and Social Science | 63 |
Peace and the Color Line Toward a Third World Peace Studies Curriculum | 65 |
Teaching Nazi Culture | 70 |
Teaching the Vietnam War at a South Bronx Alternative High School | 78 |
Math and Science Education | 205 |
The Myth of Neutrality Race Sex and Class in Science | 207 |
A Different Third R Radical Math | 219 |
Never Meant to Survive A Black Womans Journey An Interview with Evelynn Hammonds by Aimee Sands | 230 |
WHERE WE WORK | 245 |
Education as Oppression | 247 |
Back to Basics | 249 |
Standardized Testing at JFK High | 258 |
Revising the Literary Canon | 87 |
These SelfInvented Women A Theoretical Framework for a Literary History of Black Women | 89 |
Rewriting AfroAmerican Literature A Case for Black Women Writers | 99 |
WorkingClass Womens Literature An Introduction to Study | 110 |
Teaching Literature and Teaching Film | 141 |
The Literature of Work | 143 |
Notes on Teaching Masculinity and Homosexuality in Literature | 154 |
Reconciling Native Son and Native Daughters | 163 |
Science Fiction Novels and Film | 166 |
Teaching the Hollywood Western | 177 |
Teaching Writing | 185 |
Freshman Composition | 187 |
Teaching Basic Skills Working with Contradictions | 195 |
As the White MiddleClass World Turns Teaching Soap Operas in a Writing Class | 200 |
The Doctrine of Separate Spheres in Elementary Education | 266 |
The View from the Other Side | 282 |
Working Conditions and Struggles | 287 |
Living at the Bottom PartTime Teaching at the City University of New York | 289 |
London Teaching Diary | 295 |
Homophobia in the Schools Or What We Dont Know Will Hurt Us | 302 |
Guests at the Table Feminists and Contracts | 312 |
Black Women on the Frontline Unfinished Business of the Sixties | 323 |
radicalteacher definition | 339 |
Notes on Contributors | 341 |
Radical Teacher Editorial Board Members Past and Present | 349 |
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