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Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education
Barbara Thompson
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Description for Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Num Pages: 306 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JNK; JNMT; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 529.
This book highlights the difficulties that women working as managers and leaders in initial teacher education face. Teacher education is at the forefront of education reforms and yet little is known about the professional lives of those who work within it. Whereas many women are moving into positions of authority in teacher training, some existing women managers are being marginalized within new internally differentiated layers of managerial structures. Yet other female managers, mainly new appointees, seem to endorse the discourses associated with new managerialist practices. Simultaneously some women who manage in teacher training are engaged in a struggle for survival individually ... Read more
This book highlights the difficulties that women working as managers and leaders in initial teacher education face. Teacher education is at the forefront of education reforms and yet little is known about the professional lives of those who work within it. Whereas many women are moving into positions of authority in teacher training, some existing women managers are being marginalized within new internally differentiated layers of managerial structures. Yet other female managers, mainly new appointees, seem to endorse the discourses associated with new managerialist practices. Simultaneously some women who manage in teacher training are engaged in a struggle for survival individually ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137490506
SKU
V9781137490506
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Ref
99-15
About Barbara Thompson
Barbara Thompson is Principal Lecturer in the Institute of Education at the University of Chichester, UK. She was Programme Leader for Chichester’s PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education) Primary Programme and later the MA (Education) Programme. Barbara publishes in the field of gender and has a PhD in Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education.
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