This unique volume addresses issues of gender in education by examining the work experiences and policies affecting women and teaching in Latin America, North America and parts of Europe, with a focus on the social construction of women teachers.
Table of Content
Introduction; R.Cortina & S.San Román PART I: THE DAILY ENCOUNTER OF TEACHERS WITH A FEMINIZED PROFESSION Professional Identities of Teachers during the Social Transformation Toward Democracy in Spain; S.San Román Collegiality and Gender in the Elementary School Teachers’ Workplace Cultures: A Tale of Two Projects; E.Richards & S.Acker State, Gender, and Class in the Social Construction of Argentine Women Teachers; G.Morgade PART II: MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTERPRETATION OF THE FEMINIZATION OF TEACHING Women Teachers in Mexico: Asymmetries of Power in Public Education; R.Cortina Educational Policies and Gender: An Assessment of the1990s in Brazil; F.Rosemberg The Feminization of the Teaching Profession in Belgium in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; M.Depaepe, H.Lauwers & F.Simon PART III: THE FEMINIZATION OF A PROFESSION AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WOMEN AND TEACHING IN COSTA RICA IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY; I.Molina Society and Curriculum in the Feminization of the Teaching Profession in the Dominican Republic, 1860-1935; J.Alfonseca Teachers of Yesteryear: A Study of Women Educators During Porfiriato; L.E.Galván
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Regina Cortina is Professor of Education and Program Director, International and Comparative Education, at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.
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