"This Job Is Harder Than It Looks": Rural Oaxacan Women Explain Why They Became Teachers.

Howell, Jayne

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ERIC Number: EJ576633

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Publication Date: 1997

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"This Job Is Harder Than It Looks": Rural Oaxacan Women Explain Why They Became Teachers.

Howell, Jayne

Anthropology & Education Quarterly, v28 n2 p251-79 Jun 1997

Explores the reasons rural women have become elementary school teachers in the state of Oaxaca (Mexico), and examines how recent economic changes may be changing the female population that wants to become teachers to an even poorer segment of society. Ethnographic research was conducted with 35 Oaxacan teachers or teacher candidates. (SLD)

Descriptors: Career Choice, Economic Factors, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Low Income Groups, Poverty, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Rural Women, Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Mexico (Oaxaca)

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