No Angel in the Classroom

By Berenice Malka Fisher

Book Overview

Taking a fresh look at questions that have long troubled teachers committed to social change, No Angel in the Classroom provides a richly conceptualized and down-to-earth account of feminist teaching in higher education. Long-time feminist educator, Berenice Malka Fisher, gives a nuanced interpretation of second wave feminist consciousness-raising that bridges the gap between feminist activism and the academy. Candid classroom stories bring out the myths embedded in many activist ideals of the 1970s, while Fisher's informed analysis builds on these tensions, offering a complex amount of experience, emotion, thought, and action in feminist teaching.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847691241
• ISBN13: 9780847691241
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Interested in Feminist Pedagogy?-A Must Read!

For those interested in classroom environments and Feminist discourse as pedagogy this book is amazing. Fisher uses many class examples and proceeds to deconstruct them using her methods of a mixture of consciousness-raising techniques from the 60s and 70s early feminist movements as well as current tenets of feminist scholarship. Her solutions to difficult situations can be used in many classrooms. She analyzes her position as a tenured faculty and her teaching philosophy with the admission that those circumstances are not universal or even commonplace in the lives of other faculty.She addresses the stereotype that Women's Studies classes are essentially touchy-feely and thus less scholarly or intellectual, by bringing to the forefront that learning takes place under varying circumstances. Qualifying the validity of one type of learning over another has routinely been a way to belittle not just women's accomplishments but the accomplishments of many marginalized groups.Anyone interested in teaching at a University level would benefit from reading this book. You don't have to identify as a feminist to appreciate the well articulated theories and their practical applications.