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Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling - The Influence of Male Teachers (Hardcover)
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Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling - The Influence of Male Teachers (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Education
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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.
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