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“When I started teaching, I was reluctant to address the emotionally laden content of the classroom.  But over time, I gave more and more attention to classroom interaction, which, like all group interactions, is structured by inequalities of power among the participants.  They are not random, haphazard, or out of the control of the teacher.  Our behaviour as faculty members and the way we structure our courses play major roles in the nature of classroom interactions as they unfold throughout the semester: they mimic, reproduce, and with creative management can interrupt, the normal hierarchies of society.”

Lynn Weber Cannon

Women's Studies Quarterly
Vol. 18, No. 1/2, Curricular and Institutional Change (Spring - Summer, 1990), pp. 126-134

Published by: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York

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