Teaching as a Gendered Experience

Male Elementary Preservice Teachers' Gendering of Teaching

“…This historical quote is also part of the contemporary landscape of the teaching profession. Griffin (1997) asserted that teaching can be aptly characterized by absence of voice, lack of autonomy and control, low status and salary, blurred boundaries between home and school, isolation, and limited opportunities for career advancement.…”

“…Teaching has been characterized by an ethic of care, which is, presumably, part and parcel of how females negotiate their professional identities (Griffin, 1997). Teaching is further coupled with social conceptions of femininity as it draws on discourses that connect women to the nurture of small children and helping (Biklen, 1995;Griffin, 1997).…”

“…Teaching is further coupled with social conceptions of femininity as it draws on discourses that connect women to the nurture of small children and helping (Biklen, 1995;Griffin, 1997). In claiming their place in elementary teaching, these men questioned prevailing ideas that linked femininity, caring, and teaching.…”

Constructing Student-Teacher Identities via a Mentorship Programme Initiative: A Case for School-Based Learning

“…Research studies have been shown that caring has been conceptualised as a highly gendered construct and is set in opposition to paid work, training and professionalism (Griffin 1997;Rogers and Webb 1991;Søreide 2006;Watson 2007). It is, in our view therefore, crucial when seeking to reclaim caring as an activity of value and necessity and not to perpetuate the discourse of femininity and gender difference.…”

The positions of primary and secondary schools in the English school field: a case of durable inequality

“…Griffin (1997); Hargreaves and Tucker (1991); Nias (1999);Noddings (1992); Oram (1996); Skeggs (1997); Smeyers (1999); Vogt (2002); Walby (1989); Walkerdine (1990).…”