Using Gender to Preserve Tracking's Status Hierarchy

The Defensive Strategy of Entrenched Teachers

Bibliographic Data

ID2470552
AuthorsAmanda Datnow (0000-0002-7228-6373, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume28
Issue2
Pages204-228
Publication date1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aeq.1997.28.2.204
OpenAlexW1969006536
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

In a case study of a racially mixed high school undertaking detrucking, gender politics among the teachers emerged as a shaping force in the reform effort. This paper examines the politics of representation among two factions of teachers at the school. The reform, led by a party of female teachers, was derailed as a coalition of male teachers employed a gender discourse to successfully capture the dominant mode of representing what "school" means. The entrenched male teachers' efforts at maintaining a culture of patriarchy was part of their larger movement to maintain tracking's status hierarchy among students

Bureaucracy · Hierarchy · Mathematics education · Patriarchy · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · School teachers · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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