ERIC Number: EJ1380013
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0954-0253
EISSN: EISSN-1360-0516
The Gendered Construction of Teachers' Identities and Practices: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Policy Texts in Ireland
Gender and Education, v35 n3 p282-298 2023
While gender and education studies abound, there are fewer studies examining how the gendered construction of teachers' identities and practices are enabled, and constrained, in policy and research. Here, I conduct a "Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis" of this gendered construction in four policy texts in teacher education in Ireland, set within a neoliberal imaginary playing-out across OECD countries, and in mainstream research of teacher effectiveness. The analysis uses a metaphor of confinement to trouble the problem, and to generate wider representations and emancipatory possibilities. The findings reveal how this reform ensemble in Ireland acts more often than not in sync with a global education reform movement in gender-blind ways to constrain, if not actively confine (mostly women) teachers' voices and agency, often in assumed, theory-weak and patriarchal ways. The study foregrounds the gendered politics of teacher education within a pressing need for egalitarian rather than conservative gender discourses.
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Educational Change, Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes, Politics of Education, Teacher Education, Professional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Feminism, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Teacher Effectiveness, Social Status, Neoliberalism, International Organizations, Lifelong Learning, Standards, Professionalism
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland
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