BelenkyBelenky's Women's Ways of Knowing details the "midwife model" of teaching. Mid-wife teachers support students’ ideas so that students can feel comfortable having their own unique ideas as well as expressing them in an effective way. “They support their student’s thinking, but they do not do the students’ thinking for them or expect the students to think as they do” (Belenky, 1997, p.217-218). This contrasts with banking education criticized by Paulo Freire where students are given the ideas that are considered to be important and worth knowing. These fact-based ideas and their importance is solely determined by the teacher. Students may unfortunately be intentionally or unintentionally influenced to have the same views and thoughts as their teacher in this type of education. This compares to the midwife model where teachers and students work collaboratively and it is acknowledged that the teachers' ideals, views, and knowledge is not the end all be all to a student's education.
Belenky, M. F. (1997). Connected teaching. In Women's ways of knowing: The development of self, voice and mind (pp. 215-229). New York: Basic.
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Guerilla GirlsThe Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art written by The Guerrilla Girls works to expose the ideals of patriarchy and ethnocentrism that history books so often perpetuate. While doing so this book puts woman first by re-inventing the way art history is normally taught by showing all the forgotten and/or ignored woman artists throughout history. This book seeks to inform people of the ongoing problem of women being underrepresented and misrepresented in the world of art.
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Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists). (1998). The Guerrilla Girls' bedside companion to the history of Western art. New York: Penguin Books.