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This unique volume addresses issues of gender in education by examining the work experiences and policies affecting women and teaching in Latin America, North America and parts of Europe, with a focus on the social construction of women teachers.
This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of ‘femininity’ as a social, racial and class construct and explores the diversity of spaces that may be defined as educational that range from institutional contexts to family, to professional outlooks, to racial identity, to defining community and religious groupings. It explores how notions of femininity change across time and place, and within individual lives. Such changes take place at the interface of external forces and individual agency. The application of the notion of ‘femininity’ that assumes a consistent definition of the term is interrogated by the authors, leading to a discussion of the rich possibilities for new directions in research into women’s lives across time, place, and individual life histories.
El 5 d’octubre de 1867 s’inaugurava la Escuela Normal de Maestras de València amb el suport de la Universitat, l’Ajuntament i la Diputació de València. Al llarg de 150 anys, aquesta institució pública, seglar i, en el seu origen, de caràcter específicament femení, ha format les mestres que han educat les dones en les escoles valencianes. El recorregut per la seua història ens mostra el doble compromís pedagògic i social de professores i alumnes, els esforços per convertir-la en un centre renovador i de prestigi en el primer terç del segle XX, la desfeta durant el franquisme i les dificultats per la recuperació pedagògica fins arribar a l’actual Facultat de Magisteri. Al mateix temps, ens permet una mirada a l’evolució de la societat valenciana i les tensions produïdes entre els models de dona més innovadors i aquells més tradicionals. Tot plegat, unes pàgines de la història de l’educació valenciana, fins ara desconegudes, on les dones van ser les protagonistes indiscutibles.
Sociology for Music Teachers: Practical Applications, Second Edition, outlines the basic concepts relevant to understanding music teaching and learning from a sociological perspective. It demonstrates the relationship of music to education, schooling and society, and examines the consequences for making instructional choices in teaching methods and repertoire selection. The authors look at major theories, and concepts relevant to music education, texts in the sociology of music, and thoughts of selected ethnomusicologists and sociologists. The new edition takes a more global approach than was the case in the first edition and includes the application of sociological theory to contexts beyond...
This volume introduces sociology as a foundational discipline of education. Education is a central structuring mechanism in shaping societies, making it a core focus for sociology. Sociologists study education in its broadest sense – as occurring within families, communities and provided by institutions. The purposes of formal education are contested and these contestations shape broader power relations locally, nationally and globally. Sociologists disaggregate processes within education to examine empirically and theoretically the various levels at which they operate. This allows them to describe and make sense of the ways that relations of inequality are developed, reproduced or unsettl...
An intimate account of an anthropologist’s relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication. Home Signs grew out of the anthropologist Joshua Reno’s experience of caring for and trying to communicate with his teenage son, Charlie, who cannot speak. To manage interactions with others, Charlie uses what are known as “home signs,” gestures developed to meet his need for expression, ranging from the wiggle of a finger to a subtle sideways glance. Though he is nonverbal, he is far from silent: in fact, he is in constant communication with others. In this intimate reflection on language, disability, and togetherness...
El último título de la colección L’Ull Crític presenta diversos estudios que giran alrededor de la relación entre el género femenino y la literatura popular. Los artículos se organizan en tres grandes bloques (Image féminines, Réception et adaptation y Femme et Institutions) y, entre otros, incluyen el análisis de obras de Paul d’Ivoi, George Sand, Eugénie Marlitt, Erckmann-Chatrian o Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest.
Beginning with an exploration of the origins and evolution of sustainable development and finance, this book continues with sections on public and private sector finance and investment for sustainable development, climate finance, and the emerging ‘blue’ economy. A concluding chapter incorporates the recommendations for sustainable finance going forward in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and escalating global environmental crisis.
Examining teacher education in an international context, this book captures the diversity of the world's educators. Many countries confront surprisingly similar challenges in preparing K–12 educators for success, while national contexts also make for surprising differences. In Teaching the World's Teachers, education historians Lauren Lefty and James W. Fraser and their contributors make a convincing case for approaching these shared challenges from a more global and historically minded perspective. Written by education scholars from eleven different countries—Argentina, Brazil, Catalonia-Spain, China, England, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States—this...