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- Title
Work, Gender, and Teaching.
- Authors
Apple, Michael W.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the concept of proletarianization in teaching. An examination of changes in class composition over the past two decades points out something quite dramatically. The process of proletarianization has had both a large and a consistent effect. There has been a systematic tendency for those positions with relatively little control over their labor process to expand during this time period. At the same time, there was a decline in positions with high levels of autonomy. The integration of management systems, reductive behaviorally based curricula, pre-specified teaching procedures and student responses, and pre and post testing was leading to a loss of control and a separation of conception from execution. In sum, the labor process of teaching was becoming susceptible to processes similar to those that bas led to the proletarianization of many other blue, pink, and white-collar jobs. Teachers are not only classed actors, they are gendered actors as well, a fact that is too often neglected by many investigators. This is a significant omission. A striking conclusion is evident from the analyzes of proletarianization. In every occupational category, women are more apt to be proletarianized than men.
- Subjects
TEACHING; PROLETARIANIZATION; TEACHERS; INSTRUCTIONAL systems; COMPREHENSIVE instruction (Reading); CURRICULUM consultants; EDUCATORS
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1983, Vol 84, Issue 3, p611
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818308400316