Masculinities and Teaching in Primary Schools: Exploring the Lives of Irish Male Teachers

by Suzanne O'Keeffe

Overview

This book provides a platform for male teachers to share how their professional and personal identities are enacted in the classroom. It draws on a range of international contexts to theoretically and conceptually link and integrate elaborate notions of masculinities in existing literature and discourse with the everyday realities of teachers across school, home and community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030939939
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/23/2022
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	94
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Suzanne O'Keeffe is a lecturer at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her interests and scholarly outputs reside predominantly within the field of sociology of education, where she places a particular emphasis on issues relating to democratic research designs, gender issues, and masculinities.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Identities at Work: The Staffroom, Playground, and School Environment.- Inter-text One Mind and Body.- 3. Emotions and Reshaping Masculinities.- Inter-text Two The Body.- 4. Masculinities and Non-human Bodies.- Inter-text Three Emotions.- 5. Connecting Power, Emotions, and Materiality Through Data Analysis.- 6. Conclusion.