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Title Women and teaching : global perspectives on the feminization of a profession / Regina Cortina and Sonsoles San Román
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Daily Encounter of Teachers with a Feminized Profession -- Professional Identities of Teachers during the Social Transformation Toward Democracy in Spain / Sonsoles San Román -- Collegiality and Gender in the Elementary School Teachers' Workplace Cultures: A Tale of Two Projects / Elisabeth Richards and Sandra Acker -- State, Gender, and Class in the Social Construction of Argentine Women Teachers / Graciela Morgade -- Multidisciplinary Interpretation of the Feminization of Teaching -- Women Teachers in Mexico: Asymmetries of Power in Public Education / Regina Cortina -- Educational Policies and Gender: An Assessment of the1990s in Brazil / Fúlvia Rosemberg -- The Feminization of the Teaching Profession in Belgium in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Marc Depaepe, Hilde Lauwers, and Frank Simon -- The Feminization of a Profession at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Women and Teaching in Costa Rica in the Early Twentieth Century / Iván Molina -- Society and Curriculum in the Feminization of the Teaching Profession in the Dominican Republic, 1860-1935 / Juan Alfonseca Giner de los Ríos -- Teachers of Yesteryear: A Study of Women Educators During Porfiriato / Luz Elena Galván Lafarga
Summary A unique volume that addresses issues of gender in education by examining the work experiences and policies affecting women and teaching in Latin America, North American, and parts of Europe, with a focus on the social construction of women teachers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women teachers -- History
Feminism and education -- History
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- General.
Feminism and education
Women teachers
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cortina, Regina.
San Román, Sonsoles.
LC no. 2005053508
ISBN 9781403984371
1403984379
9781403973092
1403973091
1281365890
9781281365897