School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching (Professional Development & Practice) - Softcover

Biklen, Sari Knopp

 
9780807734070: School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching (Professional Development & Practice)

Synopsis

This text explores what it means for women to be teachers in America. It uses several different perspectives, including historical antecedents as seen through various types of non-fiction sources about 19th-century women teachers, and fiction sources about these teachers in the mid-20th century.

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"Biklen's qualitative sources provide rich insights and her blend of sociology and history offers a fresh conceptual approach."

--History of Education Quarterly

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9780807734087: School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching (Professional Development & Practice) (The Series on School Reform)

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ISBN 10:  080773408X ISBN 13:  9780807734087
Publisher: Teachers College Press, 1995
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