Neoliberal Education Reform: Gendered Notions in Global and Local Contexts (Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism)

The restructuring of teaching is a global issue, the result of a transnational movement of policy. Gender shapes the occupational reform and binds the global-to-the-local movement of reform ideas. Gender is also implicated in how policy is done and how it leads to particular outcomes. This volume examines the behind-the-scenes work done to make sense of reform and implement it during the workday and questions the new forms and controls over teaching reforms—the labor process—revealed to understand the implications of neoliberal education reform on teachers'work.Based on ethnographic research undertaken at public high schools in Argentina, this volume introduces the everyday work lives of teachers. It includes interviews and observations revealing what it means to be a teacher in the reform context, and explores the ways masculinities and femininities shape teachers'decision-making about reforms. At a time when teachers are at the center of political controversy around the world, this volume is an important reminder that school change is about changing the work of teachers. The restructuring of teaching is a global issue, the result of a transnational movement of policy. Gender shapes the occupational reform and binds the global-to-the-local movement of reform ideas. Gender is also implicated in how policy is done and how it leads to particular outcomes. This volume examines the behind-the-scenes work done to make sense of reform and implement it during the workday and questions the new forms and controls over teaching reforms-the labor process-revealed to understand the implications of neoliberal education reform on teachers' work.Based on ethnographic research The restructuring of teaching is a global issue, the result of a transnational movement of policy. Gender shapes the occupational reform and binds the global-to-the-local movement of reform ideas. Gender is also implicated in how policy is done and how it leads to particular outcomes. This volume examines the behind-the-scenes work done to make sense of reform and implement it during the workday and questions the new forms and controls over teaching reforms - the labour process - revealed to understand the implications of neoliberal education reform on teachers' work Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Preface 10 Introduction to Global and Local Interest in Reorganizing Teachers’ Work: Comparing Stories 14 1 Theorizing Teachers’ Gendered Policy Enactments 30 2 How We Get Work: Gendering Teacher Preparation, Licensure, and the Job of Getting a Job 39 3 Navigating New Titles, Curriculum, and School Structures in a Meaningless Reform 65 4 Negotiating Incentives and Salary Bonuses 83 5 Extracurricular Work in and for an Unequal Society 109 6 Conclusions and New Beginnings: Teachers as Policy Protagonists 131 Index 136