The Gender Politics Of Educational Change

by Datnow,Amanda

• ISBN13: 9780750706292
• ISBN10: 0750706295
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What is the relationship of gender to the micropolitics of school reform? The timely research question is explored in this book which will open the 'black box' of secondary school reform. Teachers are asked to play an increasingly active role in school reform. Datnow reveals the everyday struggles that happen between different factions of teachers with different definitions of what school means for students. The focus of this struggle may not be on education but the underlying issues such as gender. The author shows gender politics can be used by teachers to head off reform and, using three case study schools, explains the condition sunder which factionalism occurs.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
A Framework for Understanding the Gender Politics of Educational Change	p. 9
Notes	p. 26
Central High School: The Case and Its Context	p. 27
Teachers at Central High School: Identities and Ideologies	p. 43
The Competition over What 'school' Means at Central	p. 78
Common and Diverging Themes in the Gender Politics of Educational Change	p. 109
Implications for School Change	p. 130
Appendix: Sample Teacher Interview Protocol for the beyond Sorting and Stratification Study	p. 140
References	p. 148
Index	p. 155
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