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Gender, race, and the politics of role modelling : the influence of male teachers / Wayne Martino and Goli Rezai-Rashti.
Van Pelt Library LC212.93.A8 M37 2012
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Van Pelt Library LC212.93.A8 M37 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martino, Wayne.
- Series:
- Routledge research in education ; 70.
- Routledge research in education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex differences in education--Australia--Case studies.
- Sex differences in education.
- Sex differences in education--Canada--Case studies.
- Male elementary school teachers--Australia--Case studies.
- Male elementary school teachers.
- Male elementary school teachers--Canada--Case studies.
- Discrimination in education--Australia--Case studies.
- Discrimination in education.
- Discrimination in education--Canada--Case studies.
- Elementary school teachers--Australia--Attitudes.
- Elementary school teachers.
- Elementary school teachers--Canada--Attitudes.
- Canada.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 274 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Summary:
- "This book provides an illuminating account of teachers' own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male roles in elementary schools to address important issues regarding gender, race and the politics of representation. By including the perspectives of minority teachers and students, and by drawing on feminist, queer and anti-racist frameworks, this book rejects the familiar tendency to resort to role modeling as a basis for explaining or addressing boys' disaffection with schooling. Indeed, the authors argue, on the basis of their research in urban schools in Toronto and Australia, that educational policy concerned with male teacher shortage and the plight of poor, disaffected minority boys would benefit from engaging with analytic perspectives and empirical literature which move beyond the singularity of gender and race as a basis for entertaining an urban school reform agenda that emphasizes the transformative potential of the male teacher as a role model. Presented within is a compelling case for the need to disarticulate discourses about role modeling from a politics of representation that is committed to addressing the reality of the impact of racial and structural inequalities on both minority teachers and students' participation in the education system. This book also provides insight into the persistence of gender inequality as it relates to the status of elementary school teaching as women's work"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Male Teacher Shortage and the Politics of Representation 20
- 3 Black Teachers' Narratives about Role Modelling and Representation 46
- 4 Beyond Race-Role Modelling: Black Male Teachers as Organic Intellectuals 79
- 5 The Question of Male Privilege 94
- 6 The Scourge of Repressive Female Authority 129
- 7 The Case of Male Bonding and the Demonization of Female Teachers 142
- 8 The Lure of Hegemonic Masculinity for Male Elementary School Teachers 181
- 9 The Politics of Multiculturalism, Representation, and Role Modelling in a Multi-Racial Muslim School Community 208
- 10 Do the Gender and Race of the Teachers Really Matter? Students' Perspectives on Role Modelling 226
- 11 Conclusion: Towards a Social Imaginary Beyond Role Modelling 242.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415878661
- 0415878667
- OCLC:
- 617637673
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