Imagining Teachers Rethinking Gender Dynamics in Teacher Education

by Fischman, Gustavo E.; Stromquist, Nelly P.

• ISBN13: 9780847691821
• ISBN10: 0847691829
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book calls for a different understanding of the professional preparation of pre-service teachers, critically reflecting on issues of caring and gender, and challenging the dominance of words only educational research methodologies. Using conceptual tools from visual anthropology, cultural studies, feminism and critical pedagogy, Fischman focuses on the educational dilemmas that students and professors in teacher education programs face within institutions that reinforce, rather than challenge, oppressive class, racial, ethnic, and gender dynamics.

Author Biography

Gustavo E. Fischman is assistant professor in the College of Education at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xi
Introduction	1	(2)
Teachers, Who Cares?	3	(2)
Using Images in Educational Research	5	(6)
The Local, the Global, and the Problems	11	(2)
What Is in This Book	13	(2)
Notes	15	(4)
Gender, Identity and Power: Who Cares?	19	(34)
About Identities and Gender	20	(5)
About Hegemonic Masculinities and Machismo	25	(5)
About Emphasized Femininities and Mothering	30	(3)
About Teacher Education Programs as Gender Regimes	33	(4)
About Gender, Caring, and Dialogue in Schools	37	(2)
About Context and Dialogue	39	(2)
About Power and Context	41	(3)
About Technologies of Power	44	(2)
About Moving Forward	46	(1)
Notes	47	(6)
Methods, Images, and Metaphors	53	(10)
About the Development of a Methodological Framework	53	(1)
General Considerations	54	(3)
About the Tools and Techniques Used during Fieldwork	57	(4)
Final Notes on Methodological Issues	61	(1)
Notes	62	(1)
A Brief History of Elementary Teacher Education in Argentina: Institutions And Social Representations	63	(26)
Origins and Trajectory of Argentina's System of Teacher Training	64	(2)
The Normal School Teacher: Apostles and Second Mothers	66	(3)
Professionalization Is an Order: The Tertiarization of Teacher Training (1969-1988)	69	(3)
The Context for the Adjusted Model of Teacher Training (1984-1996)	72	(12)
Notes	84	(5)
Teacher Tango: Caring, Suffering, and Smiling	89	(72)
Enrollment Trends in Teacher Education Programs (TEPs): Fear and Relief	90	(7)
Who Are the Current Teacher Education Students?	97	(2)
Why Do They Study? Social Mobility, Vocation, and Beyond	99	(6)
Metaphors and Models of Teachers	105	(8)
Thinking Visually	113	(23)
Case 1: What Happens When Bad Girls Become Teachers	136	(2)
Rethinking the Masculine Gaze	138	(5)
Case 2: The Contradictions of Teaching: Between Donkeys and Superteachers	143	(8)
The Tango of Schooling	151	(6)
Notes	157	(4)
Imagining Teacher Education	161	(12)
Gender, Teaching, and the Elusiveness of Caring	161	(4)
Carnivals, Laughing, and Teaching	165	(6)
Notes	171	(2)
Bibliography	173	(24)
Index	197	(16)
About the Author	213