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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826418003321

Titolo

Women and teaching : global perspectives on the feminization of a profession / / [edited by] Regina Cortina and Sonsoles San Roman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36589-0

9786611365899

1-4039-8437-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CortinaRegina

San RomanSonsoles

Disciplina

371.10082

Soggetti

Women teachers - History

Feminism and education - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women and Teaching-Global Perspectives on the Feminization of a Profession -- The Daily Encounter of Teachers with a Feminized Profession -- 1 Professional Identities of Teachers during the Social Transformation toward Democracy in Spain -- 2 Collegiality and Gender in Elementary School Teachers' Workplace Cultures: A Tale of Two Projects -- 3 State, Gender, and Class in the Social Construction of Argentine Women Teachers -- Multidisciplinary Interpretation of the Feminization of Teaching -- Chapter 4 Women Teachers in Mexico: Asymmetries of Power in Public Education -- 5 Educational Policies and Gender: An Assessment of the 1990s in Brazil -- 6 The Feminization of the Teaching Profession in Belgium in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- The Feminization of a Profession at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 7 Women and Teaching in Costa Rica in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 8 Society and Curriculum in the Feminization of the Teaching Profession in the Dominican Republic, 1860-1935 -- Chapter 9 Teachers of Yesteryear: A Study of Women Educators during Porfiriato -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- J -- M



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Sommario/riassunto

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.