Böcker av Frances A. Maher

This text discusses the position of women in American Education. The authors offer examples of how assumptions of privilege, specifically the workings of unacknowledged whiteness, shape classroom discourse. It also goes beyond the classroom to look at the context of American higher education.

This book includes four cases dealing with related aspects of gender and teaching, along with a range of preservice and practicing teachers' and administrators' reactions to each case. It presents four public arguments pertaining to the issues raised in the cases.

A focused and interactive overview of the important gender issues in education today. This is accomplished through conversations among experts, practitioners and readers, that are informed by representative case studies and by a range of theoretical approaches to the issues.