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Feminist research has documented classroom bias, explored sex differences in learning, and proposed ways to incorporate the study of women. Martin, a philosopher, considers the unexamined assumptions that control efforts to construct an education that will produce the adults a society wants. Analyzing proposals for women's education written by Plato, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Catharine Beecher, and Charlotte Gilman, Martin asks critical questions about the consequences of educational theory. Her careful work shows the impossibility of just ``adding women''a serious effort to design ideal education for women makes it necessary also to rethink men's schooling. This is an important book, but rather heavy going for nonspecialists. Sally Mitchell, English Dept., Temple Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of Educated Woman (Paperback)
As a future teacher, I found Martin's insights remarkably similar to the ideas I had not yet formed into a philosophy. I used this work for writing my own educational philosophy for a college course and am using that very paper for my writing portfolio (a requirement for my major). I read a small part of this book from Philosophical Documents in Education (3rd Edition) [Paperback] and immediately purchased Reclaiming a Conversation. For anyone unfamiliar with Jane Roland Martin but is interested in feminist-based pedagogies, I would highly suggest this work. Additionally, she argues that inclusion is mandatory to educate both female and male mind's in the classroom. For example, she argues curriculums should balance female authors will male authors for egalitarian studies. She also present an interesting theory about reproductive and productive processes in society, meaning that the prior focuses on female's domestic roles, such as child rearing and caring for the elderly, should be taught as much as the latter that focuses on male's roles in the professional realm, such as politics and economy. She argues both should be taught in a curriculum, and "reclaims a conversation" by revisiting philosophers' perceptions of the female's placement in education, ranging from Plato to Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Anyone who additionally appreciates Adrienne Rich's poetry will find her excepts in this work very compelling, as she seeks The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 much like Martin.
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This review is from: Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of Educated Woman (Paperback)
This book brought women into the history of educational thought. Its importance cannot be exaggerated.
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