Teachers, gender, and careers

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Teachers, gender, and careers

edited by Sandra Acker

Falmer Press, 1989

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographies and index

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Older literature on teaching as a professsion has been criticized for its inadvertent sexism as writers appeared to believe that the presence of large numbers of women in an occupation was automatically incompatible with professionalism. Whilst women make up approximately 60% of teachers in primary and secondary schools, they are noticeably underrepresented in high-status posts. Most of the material presented here draws upon original empirical research and reflections on personal experience, and is influenced not only by biography and personal characteristics but also by cultures within educational institutions, labour market conditions and other social divisions in society.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Rethinking career: review and critique of surveys on women teachers' careers, Rosemary Grant
  • careers on women primary headteachers, Julia Evetts
  • researching gender, educational administration and the Third World, Lynn Davies. Part 2 The shaping of experience - gender characteristics and biography: the process of becoming a feminist teacher and its effects on careers and pedagogy, Sue Middleton
  • the early years of teaching, Gillian Squirrel
  • race, gender and teachers' careers, Sheila Miles and Angela Lewis
  • sexuality, gender and teachers, Peter Aggleton. Part 3 Teachers at work - the impact of gender on relationships with parents, colleagues, pupils, students, managers, teachers and mothers, Miriam David
  • women teachers, Sheila Cunnison
  • teachers' perceptions of gender differentiation in a rural comprehensive school, Sheila Riddell
  • women's work, women's world - teachers and their students on a secretarial course in a further education college in Somerset, Edith Black
  • equal opportunities and school management, Elizabeth Al-Khalifa.

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