Women@Work: Listening to gendered relations of power in teachers' talk about new technologies |
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| Authors: | JENNIFER JENSON CHLOË BRUSHWOOD ROSE |
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| Institution: | York University , Canada |
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| Abstract: | This article examines teachers' working identities, focusing on gender inequities among teachers, within the school system, and in society, especially in relation to their competence with and use of computers. It highlights some of the less obvious tensions that are central to the work of teaching in relation to these new technologies, paying explicit attention to the gender inequities that continue to structure our understandings of both teaching as a profession and technology as a cultural artefact. In particular, the article documents how, for the teachers who were studied, perceptions of expertise and experiences of access in relation to new technologies were produced and maintained by the gender inequities evident in computing cultures pervasive in both schools and society more generally. |
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