1st Edition

The Gender Politics Of Educational Change

By Amanda Datnow Copyright 1998

    What is the relationship of gender to the micropolitics of school reform? This book explores this timely research question, revealing the everyday struggles that happen between different factions of teachers with different definitions of what school means for students. The focus of this struggle, however, may not be on education, but rather on such underlying issues as gender. Using case studies, the author shows how gender politics can be used by teachers to delay reform.

    Part 1 Introduction: what we know about the gender politics of change; Central High School - the case and its context. Part 2 Factionalism and teacher agency at Central High School: the idea team - struggling from change; the good old boys - struggling to maintain the status quo; the passive agents - watching the crossfire. Part 3 The intersection of gender, micropolitics and reform: the competition over what school means; common and diverging themes in gender politics and education change; what does this mean for secondary school reform?

    Biography

    Amanda Datnow