Black Cuban women primary school teachers negotiating the responsibilities of social reproduction.
Investigations into teacher dissatisfaction often limit concerns to the school setting; however, this ethnographic study investigated how Cuban women's employment as primary school teachers forced them to make strategic negotiations related to childbirth and eldercare. Interviews and participant obs...
| Publicado en: | Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 237 - 257 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2024
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| Sumario: | Investigations into teacher dissatisfaction often limit concerns to the school setting; however, this ethnographic study investigated how Cuban women's employment as primary school teachers forced them to make strategic negotiations related to childbirth and eldercare. Interviews and participant observation conducted with five Black primary teachers revealed tensions between economic production and biological reproduction. Attention to teachers' lives outside of the classroom and the complications they experience are useful for Cuba and other counties experiencing shortages. |
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