The authors reexamine their book, "The Feminist Classroom," for unacknowledged assumptions of Whiteness that shape knowledge construction in the classroom. They use classroom and interview data to investigate how students' constructions of gender, class, ethnicity, and race are informed by these assumptions. (SK)

The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Lewis and Clark College, Oregon, has as one of its distinctive features the incorporation of the history, traditions, and contributions of women and men, and international and intercultural perspectives. The program is described, showing how feminist scholarship has influenced course content. (MT)

The shift from male-defined to gender-balanced education over the past 15 years is described by examining how the social movement for sex equity and the new scholarship on women have interacted. Implications for future action and inquiry are suggested. (MT)

Notes the decrease in programs and courses on women's studies at the high school level and attributes this decrease to the national drive for educational reform. Provides an overview of recent efforts to increase teaching about women's history, and includes an introduction to the theme articles in this issue of SOCIAL EDUCATION. (JDH)

This article illustrates changes in the thinking which have occurred over the past 15 years about how to incorporate women into the discipline of history. It identifies five different phases of feminist scholarship and illustrates how women's studies have influenced the author's and other teachers' thinking about history. (JDH)

An evaluation model, feminist phase theory, that classifies the evolution of feminist scholarship in anthropology, history, literature, and psychology is described. Its uses for evaluating a faculty development seminar in women's studies and for analyzing syllabi and textbooks for their treatment of women are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Draws upon classroom instruction in high school women's history courses and follow-up interviews six years later to consider the effects of studying history from primarily male or female perspectives with or without the authority of the school behind it. Asserts that gender-balanced history can help women students better prepare for their futures.…

Feminist teaching practices, by questioning traditional epistemology and distribution of power, offer special advantages in the culturally diverse classroom, where the valuing of different perspectives is essential. A study of two feminist teachers demonstrates how they attempt to create new kinds of classroom cultures through mastery, voice,…

Illustrates how a five-phase theory based on a new scholarship in women's history can evaluate curricular change about women present in high school history texts. Also suggests what textbook authors might include and an evaluation of 12 recent texts. Concludes that texts must eliminate stereotypic thinking about women. (TRS)

This secondary textbook analyzes the role of women in the United States from 1620 to the present. Part One, "Growing Up a Girl," discusses the role of the family, messages from the media, the schools, and decision making. Childhood games, early children's literature, early and modern textbooks, and traditional values are discussed. Part Two,…