Lesbian Teachers: An Invisible Presence (S U N Y SERIES, FEMINIST THEORY IN EDUCATION)
Description
Teachers, in general, are hired to conform with set values of the community which hires them. They are expected to reflect conventions which correspond with an ideological model of behavior sanctioned by the state and by the community in which they work. In a publicly funded educational system, not only are teachers expected to transmit dominant ideologies, but, as representatives of the state, they are assumed to embody the dominant values of the society which hires them. The notion of lesbian teachers inevitably contradicts mainstream assumptions about female teachers--women whose image s...
ISBN(s)
0791411710, 9780791411711
