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Power and Gender in the Staffroom
Author(s) -
Paechter Carrie,
Head John
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192960220104
Subject(s) - power (physics) , welsh , apportionment , subject (documents) , power structure , curriculum , process (computing) , sociology , psychology , mathematics education , social psychology , computer science , political science , pedagogy , linguistics , law , politics , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , operating system , philosophy
This paper explores the interface between gender and power through the examination of the process of introducing the new subject of design and technology into the English and Welsh National Curriculum. In considering teachers’ reactions to and interpretations of the new subject, three aspects of power are considered: the relationship between power and the self, the dynamic between positional and network power, and the way power was used by men and women in this situation. It is suggested that gender/power relations operating at the micro‐level within a professional group do not necessarily follow the structural apportionment of power and may, indeed, cut across and undermine it.