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Berenice Malka Fisher is professor of educational philosophy at New York University.
Chapter 1 Where Do I Come From
Chapter 2 What is Feminist Pedagogy
Chapter 3 Is Women?s Experience the Best Teacher? Different Ways of Knowing
Chapter 4 The Rocky Road to Feminist Empowerment: Questioning Authority
Chapter 5 No Angel in the Classroom: Exploring the Ethic of Care
Chapter 6 Dangerous Curves: Safety and Self-Disclosure
Chapter 7 Women Do Not Say ?We:? Difference and the Ideal of Community
Chapter 8 Innocents and Intellectuals: Is there Hope for Feminist Teaching?
Chapter 9 Where Can I Go From Here?
No Angel in the Classroom feels like participating in a scholarly discussion with a thoughtful mentor. It provides a coherent, focused vision of feminist pedagogy.....
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What is feminist pedagogy? Berenice Fisher has been engaged with this question for many years. Here she brings her rich experience as a scholar and teacher to a philosophical contemplation of questions of authority, safety, community, and difference in feminist classrooms. An invaluable book for feminist scholars and teachers and all those concerned with education for social justice....
— Kathleen Weiler, Tufts University; author of Women Teaching for Change
In her eyewitness report from the front lines of the feminist movement and curriculum transformation, Fisher reminds us not only that Women's Studies and feminist pedagogy grew out of a very real need to address social justice issues and inequities, but also that this need still exists today. Blending personal history, classroom interactions, and the voices of a diversity of feminist theorists, her richly layered analysis never strays from the political commitment on which liberatory pedagogy is based....
— Liza Fiol-Matta
Berenice Malka Fisher steps back from the narrowness of contemporary pedagogical debate to address more philosophical questions, such as the nature of feminist pedagogy, and aims to share the experiences of those who address social justice through their teaching. Fisher's book doesn't put forward easy answers to the question of what feminist pedagogy is, but characterizes it as work-in-progress, encouraging teachers to reflect upon their own practice and struggle towards their own answers and goes some way toward alleviating the sense of isolation that those who engage in feminist theory and practice feel...
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Berenice Malka Fisher has written a book that should be of interest to all feminist teachers. The book is dynamic and highly readable, with numerous examples of hypothetical classroom situations that make the issues it discusses concrete. She [Fisher] raises important questions and discusses them thoughtfully. If you have taught, are teaching, or might teach, this is a good book to show you that you are not only one who finds it difficult....
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• Winner, Winner of the Association for Women in Psychology's Distinguished Book Award for 2002