Women and Teaching

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Women and Teaching—Global Perspectives on the Feminization of a Profession

   1. Introduction: Women and Teaching—Global Perspectives on the Feminization of a Profession

      • Regina Cortina, Sonsoles San Román

      Pages 1-20

3. The Daily Encounter of Teachers with a Feminized Profession

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Professional Identities of Teachers during the Social Transformation toward Democracy in Spain

      • Sonsoles San Román

      Pages 23-50

   3. Collegiality and Gender in Elementary School Teachers’ Workplace Cultures: A Tale of Two Projects

      • Elisabeth Richards, Sandra Acker

      Pages 51-79

   4. State, Gender, and Class in the Social Construction of Argentine Women Teachers

      • Graciela Morgade

      Pages 81-103

4. Multidisciplinary Interpretation of the Feminization of Teaching

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Women Teachers in Mexico: Asymmetries of Power in Public Education

      • Regina Cortina

      Pages 107-128

   3. Educational Policies and Gender: An Assessment of the 1990s in Brazil

      • Fúlvia Rosemberg

      Pages 129-154

   4. The Feminization of the Teaching Profession in Belgium in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

      • Marc Depaepe, Hilde Lauwers, Frank Simon

      Pages 155-183

5. The Feminization of a Profession at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Women and Teaching in Costa Rica in the Early Twentieth Century

      • Iván Molina

      Pages 187-214

   3. Society and Curriculum in the Feminization of the Teaching Profession in the Dominican Republic, 1860–1935

      • Juan Alfonseca Giner de los Ríos

      Pages 215-242

   4. Teachers of Yesteryear: A Study of Women Educators during Porfiriato

      • Luz Elena Galván Lafarga

      Pages 243-268

6. Back Matter

   Pages 269-276

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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.

• curriculum
• democracy
• education
• Europe
• gender
• profession
• school
• teaching profession
• transformation
• women

"A sophisticated and highly readable book on the causes and consequences of the feminization of teaching in Catholic countries in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, along with Britain and Canada. The diversity and plurality of social contexts highlighted in the case studies provide much-needed additions to work on the earlier feminization of teaching in English-speaking countries." - Myra Strober, Professor of Education and Professor (by courtesy) of Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Regina Cortina is Professor of Education and Program Director, International and Comparative Education, at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

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