Troubling Reflexivity: The Identity Flows of Teachers Becoming Mothers

Autor/inn/en	Thomson, Rachel; Kehily, Mary Jane
Titel	Troubling Reflexivity: The Identity Flows of Teachers Becoming Mothers
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 23 (2011) 3, S.233-245 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Early Childhood Education; Pregnancy; Young Children; Urban Education; Foreign Countries; Conceptual Tempo; Teachers; Females; Child Rearing; Parenting Skills; Child Caregivers; Interviews; Case Studies; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Schwangerschaft; Frühe Kindheit; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Ausland; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Weibliches Geschlecht; Kindererziehung; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper explores the transition to first-time motherhood as experienced by a small sub-sample of women engaged in the professional care of young children. In the context of a wider study of motherhood in the UK, their experience of combining work with new motherhood was distinctive. Women who professionally care for young children present a counter-narrative to the view that teaching and motherhood can be blended. Negotiating the boundaries between work and motherhood produced a troubling reflexivity in which difficult feelings emerged and collided. Working in urban education involves emotionally intense forms of attachment that are disrupted by pregnancy. Becoming a mother prompts a renegotiation of professional and personal boundaries, leading women to pursue mothering as a separate enterprise, marked by individual solutions to care and career. Separating themselves from their working environment, women simultaneously isolate themselves from their middle-class counterparts who pay for childcare and return to work. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10