Can Elementary Schoolteaching Be a Career? A Search for New Ways of Understanding Women's Work.

Biklen, Sari Knopp

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ERIC Number: EJ335771

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1985

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Can Elementary Schoolteaching Be a Career? A Search for New Ways of Understanding Women's Work.

Biklen, Sari Knopp

Issues in Education, v3 n3 p215-31 Win 1985

Reviews the prevailing concept of "career," compares this perspective to a group of women elementary school teachers' concepts of their own careers, and shows how the traditional concept is inadequate for describing these teacher's "careers." Includes a discussion of a revised conceptualization of career that describes the patterns of women's lives as well as those of men's. (MD)

Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Child Rearing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Family Relationship, Females, Professional Development, Sex Role, Spouses, Teachers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Language: English

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