"You Don't Have to Be a Teacher to Teach This Unit": Teaching, Technology, and Gender in the Classroom.

Apple, Michael W.; Jungck, Susan

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Publication Date: 1990

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"You Don't Have to Be a Teacher to Teach This Unit": Teaching, Technology, and Gender in the Classroom.

Apple, Michael W.; Jungck, Susan

American Educational Research Journal, v27 n2 p227-51 Sum 1990

Interpreting teaching in gender and labor process terms, an ethnographic study of the use of a computer-literacy curriculum assessed the effects of these tendencies on teachers' daily lives. Teachers often used a prepackaged curriculum that deskilled them and left them bored and reliant on outside experts and purchased material. (TJH)

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Science Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Technology, Ethnography, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Programed Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Sex Differences, Sex Stereotypes, Teacher Role, Teacher Stereotypes

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Language: English

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