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- Title
Practicing What We Teach: Feminist Strategies for Teaching about Sexism.
- Authors
Copp, Martha; Kleinman, Sherryl
- Abstract
The article focuses on the strategies used by feminist teachers for teaching about sexism. It stated that feminism is defined as a sociologically mindful practice of a feminist person who engage in sociological mindfulness conception of human beings as interdependent. According to Marilyn Frye, sexism is a common oppression which operates systematically against women of all races, classes and sexualities. It is revealed that learning the student's first name as quickly as possible is a good way to build trust between teachers and students. Moreover, building student co-facilitation into the class format will also gets the students to play a more active role in courses.
- Subjects
SEXISM in education; TEACHING methods; FEMINISM; SEX discrimination against women; PHILOSOPHY of education; TEACHER-student relationships; CREATIVE teaching; FEMINIST theory; FRYE, Marilyn; WOMEN'S rights; SOCIAL perception
- Publication
Feminist Teacher, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 2, p101
- ISSN
0882-4843
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ftr.2008.0007