Power and Gender in the Staffroom

1 February 1996

journal article
Published by Wiley in British Educational Research Journal

Vol. 22 (1) , 57-69
https://doi.org/10.1080/0141192960220104

Abstract

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.

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