What's Critical Feminism Doing in a Field Like Teacher Education?

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Abstract

This paper looks at the role that critical feminism may have within the teacher education community. The author looks at the many components that are incorporated within critical feminism, and how we may look to such a scholarship as a way to think differently about ourselves as prospective and current teachers. . Specifically, the author looks to the practice of self –reflexivity, and how this practice can be strengthened through the many characteristics that encompass a critical feminist theory. The manuscript concludes with a brief discussion of considering the potential contributions that critical feminism may have within the field of teacher education.

Author

• Jennifer Gale de Saxe, Lewis & Clark College