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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.10082
• Soggetto topico: Women teachers - History; Feminism and education - History
• Altri autori: CortinaRegina San RomanSonsoles
• 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 -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and teaching
• ISBN: 1-281-36589-0; 9786611365899; 1-4039-8437-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826418003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II