Reform the schools, improve teaching: these battle cries of American education have been echoing for twenty years. So why does teaching change so little?
Arguing that too many would-be reformers know nothing about the conflicting demands of teaching, Mary Kennedy takes us into the controlled commotion of the classroom, revealing how painstakingly teachers plan their lessons, and how many different ways things go awry. Teachers try simultaneously to keep track of materials, time, students, and ideas. In their effort to hold all of these things together, they can inadvertently quash...
Reform the schools, improve teaching: these battle cries of American education have been echoing for twenty years. So why does teaching change so l...
This collection brings together contributions which address issues and debates within contemporary women's studies and feminism. The variety of feminist perspectives which emerge from these papers reveal the extent to which the diversities of women's experiences continue to reshape feminist knowledge and politics. A recurrent theme is how to work with these diversitites, and how to make connections which do not recreate hierarchies or oppressive practices, which privilege the experiences and aims of some women over those of others. The contributions here, from inside and outside the academy,...
This collection brings together contributions which address issues and debates within contemporary women's studies and feminism. The variety of femini...