Gender, school management and educational reforms: A case study of a primary school in Hong Kong

Gender and Education

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 491-510

  Chan, Anita Kit Wa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144253507     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250042000300394     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Acker, J. (1990) Hierarchies, jobs, bodies: a theory of gendered organizations, Gender & Society, 4(2), 139-158.
2. Acker, J. (1992) Gendering organizational theory, in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizational analysis (London, Sage).
3. Acker, S. (1999) The realities of teachers' work: never a dull moment (London & New York, Cassell).
4. Adkins, L. (1992) Sexual work and the employment of women in the service industries, in: M. Savage & A. Witz (Eds) Gender and bureaucracy (Oxford, Blackwell).
5. Adler, S., Laney, J. & Packer, M. (1993) Managing women (Buckingham, Open University Press).
6. Alvesson, M. & Billing, Y. (1992) Gender and organization: towards a differentiated understanding, Organization Studies, 13/12, 73-102.
7. Ball, S. (1990) Introduction Monsieur Foucault, in: S. Ball (Ed.) Foucault and education: disciplines and knowledge (London, Routledge).
8. Ball, S. (1994) Education reform: a critical and post-structural approach (Buckingham, Open University Press).
9. Ball, S. (1999) Educational reform and the struggle for the soul of the teacher! (Hong Kong, The Faculty of Education & Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong).
10. Bell, E. L. & Nkomo, S. M. (1992) Revisioning women managers' lives, in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred (Eds) Gendering organizational analysis (London, Sage).
11. Benschop, Y. & Dooerwaard, H. (1998) Covered by equality: the gender subtext of organizations, Organization Studies, 19(5), 787-905.
12. Bowe, R., Ball, S., with Gold, A. (1992) Reforming education and changing schools: case studies in policy sociology (London, Routledge).
13. Burton, C. (1992) Merit and gender: organizations and the mobilization of masculine bias, in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred, (Eds) Gendering organizational analysis (London, Sage).
14. Calas, M. & Smircich, L. (1992) Using the 'F' word: feminist theories and the social consequences of organizational research, in: A. J. Mills & P. Tancred, (Eds) Gendering organizational analysis (London, Sage).
15. Carlson, D. & Apple, M. (Eds) (1998) Powerlknowledgelpedagogy: the meaning of democratic education in unsettling times (US, Westview Press).
16. Campbell, R. J. & Neill, S. (1994) Primary teachers at work (London, Routledge).
17. Chan, D. & Mok, K. H. (2001) Educational reforms and coping strategies under the tidal wave of marketization: a comprehensive study of Hong Kong and the mainland, Comparative Education, 37(1), 21-41.
18. Chan, K. H. R. (1996) The construction of the welfare state in Hong Kong, 1972-1992, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Essex.
19. Cheng, K. M. (1995) Education: crises amidst challenges, in: S. Y. L. Cheung & S. M. H. Sze (Eds) The other Hong Kong report (Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press).
20. Choi, P. K. D. (1993) Education, in: J. Y. S. Cheng & P. C. K. Kwong (Eds) The other Hong Kong report (Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press).
21. Choi, P. K. D. (2003) Resituating education in social contexts, in: Association for the Advancement of Feminism (Ed.) Women's profile (Hong Kong, The Association for the Advancment of Feminism).
22. Choi, P. K. D. & Lee, C. K. (1997) The hidden abode of domestic labour: the case of Hong Kong, in: F. M. Cheung (Ed.) EnGendering Hong Kong society: a gender perspective of women's status (Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press).
23. Clarke, J., Cochrane, A. & McLaughlin, E. (Eds) (1994) Managing social policy (Thousand Oaks, Sage).
24. Cockburn, C. (1991) In the way of women: men's resistance to sex equality in organizations (London, Macmillan).
25. Cockburn, C. (1994) Play of power: women, men & equality initiatives in a trade union, in: S. Wright (Ed.) Anthropology of organizations (London, Routledge).
26. Collinson, D., & Hearn, J. (1994) Naming men as men: implications for work, organization & management, Gender, Work & Organization, 1(10), 2-22.
27. Constable, N. (1997) Sexuality and discipline among Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong, American Ethnologist, 24(3), 539-558.
28. Court, M. (1994) Removing macho management: lessons from the field of education, Gender, Work & Organization, 1(1), 33-49.
29. Davies, C. (1992) Gender, history and management style in nursing: towards a theoretical synthesis, in: M. Savage & A. Witz (Eds) Gender and bureaucracy (Oxford, Blackwell).
30. Davies, C. (1995) Gender and the professional predicament (Buckingham, Open University Press).
31. Davies, C. (1996) The sociology of profession and the professionalization of gender, Sociology, 30(4), 661-678.
32. du Gay, P. (1996) Organizing identity: entrepreneurial governance and public management, in: S. Hall & P. du Gay (Eds) Questions of cultural identity (London, Sage).
33. Education Commission (1992) Education Commission, report number 5 (Hong Kong, Government Printer).
34. Education Commission (1997) Education Commission, report number 7 (Hong Kong, Government Printer).
35. Education and Manpower Branch & Education Department (1991) The school management initiative: setting the framework for quality in Hong Kong schools (Hong Kong, Government Printer).
36. Education Department (1998) Quality assurance in school education: performance indicators (Hong Kong, Government Printer).
37. Exworthy, M. & Halford, S. (Eds) (1999) Professionals and the new managerialism in the public sector (Buckingham, Open University Press).
38. Foucault, M. (1979) Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison (New York, Vintage).
39. Gewirtz, S. (2002) The managerial school: post-welfarism and social justice in education (London, Routledge).
40. Halford, S., Savage, M. & Witz, A. (1997) Gender, careers and organizations: current developments in banking, nursing and local government (London, Macmillan).
41. Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (1995) Ethnography: principles in practice (London, Routledge).
42. Hargreaves, A. (1994) Changing teachers, changing times: teachers' work and culture in the postmodern world (London, Cassell).
43. Hargreaves, A. (2000) Four ages of professionalism and professional learning, Teachers & Teaching: History & Practice, 6(2), 151-182.
44. Kenway, J. (1996) Reasserting masculinity in Australian schools, Women's Studies International Forum, 19(4), 447-466.
45. Kerfoot, D. & Knights, D. (1993) Management, masculinity and manipulation: from paternalism to corporate strategy in financial services in Britain, Journal of Management Studies, 30(4), 659-677.
46. Kerfoot, D. & Whitehead, S. (1998) 'Boy's own' stuff: masculinity and the management of further education, The Sociological Review, 46(3), 436-457.
47. Leonard, P. (1998) Gendering change? Management, masculinity and the dynamics of incorporation, Gender & Education, 10(1), 71-84.
48. Mac an Ghaill, M. (1994) The making of men: masculinities, sexualities and schooling (Buckingham, Open University Press).
49. MacDonald, M. (1980) Socio-cultural reproduction and women's education, in: R. Deem (Ed.) Schooling for women's work (London, Routledge).
50. Maier, M. (1999) On the gendered substructure of organization: dimensions and dilemmas of corporate masculinity, in: G. Powell (Ed.) Handbook of gender and work (Thousand Oaks, Sage).
51. Mak, C. L. G. (1996) Primary and secondary education, in: M. K. Nyaw & L. S. Ming (Eds) The other Hong Kong report (Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press).
52. Mak, C. L. G. & Chung, Y. P. (1997) Education and labour force participation of women in Hong Kong, in: F. M. Cheung (Ed.) EnGendering Hong Kong society: a gender perspective of women's status (Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press).
53. Martin, J. (1990) Deconstructing organizational taboos: the suppression of gender conflict in organizations, Organization Science, 1(4), 339-359.
54. Menter, I., Muschamp, Y., Nicholls, P., Ozga, J. & Pollard, A. (1997) Work and identity in the primary school: a post-Fordist analysis (Buckingham, Open University Press).
55. Menter, I. & Muschamp, Y. (1999) Markets and management: the case of primary schools, in: M. Exworthy & S. Halford (Eds) (1999) Professionals andthe new managerialism in the public sector (Buckingham, Open University Press).
56. Mok, K. H. (2001) Impact of globalization: a study of quality assurance systems of higher education in Hong Kong and Singapore, Comparative Education Review, 44(2), 148-174.
57. Newman, J. (1994) The limits of management: gender and the politics of change, in: J. Clarke, A. Cochrane & E. McLaughlin, (Eds) Managing social policy (London, Sage).
58. Nias, J. (1989) Primary teachers talking: a study of teaching as work (London, Routledge).
59. Prichard, C. & Deem, R. (1999) Wo-managing further education: gender and the construction of the manager in the corporate colleges in England, Gender & Education, 11(3), 323-342.
60. Pringle, R. (1989) Secretaries talk: sexuality, power and work (Sydney, Allen & Unwin).
61. Pun, N. (1997) Becoming Dagongmei: body, identity and transgression in reform China, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of London.
62. Robertson, S. (1996) Teachers' work, restructuring and post-Fordism: constructing the new professionalism, in: I. Goodson & A. Hargreaves (Eds) Teachers' professional lives (London, Falmer Press).
63. Savage, M. & Witz, A. (1992) Gender and bureaucracy (Oxford, Blackwell).
64. Shore, C. & Wright, S. (2000) Coercive accountability: the rise of audit culture in higher education, in: M. Strathern (Ed.) Audit culture: anthropological studies in accountability, ethics and the academy (London, Routledge).
65. Sweeting, A. (1994) Education, in: D. McMillen & S. W. Man (Eds) The other Hong Kong report (Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press).
66. Townley, B. (1994) Reframing human resources management: power, ethics and the subject at work (London, Sage).
67. Troman, G. & Woods, P. (2001) Primary teachers' stress (London, Routledge).
68. Tsang, W. K. (1997) The cult of market efficiency: the deep meaning of the Education Commission report number 7 (Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong).
69. Tsang, W. K. (2000) Misuse and misunderstanding of education performance indicators: a critique on the culture of performance-indicator and league-table cult (Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong).
70. Whitehead, S. (1998) Disrupted selves: resistance and identity work in the managerial arena, Gender & Education, 10(2), 199-215.
71. Whitehead, S. (2001) Woman as manager: a seductive ontology, Gender, Work & Organization, 8(1), 84-107.
72. Williams, C. (1995) Still a man's world: men who do 'women's work' (Berkeley, University of California Press).
73. Woods, P., Jeffrey, B., Troman, G. & Boyle, M. (1997) Restructuring schools; reconstructing teachers: responding to change in the primary school (Buckingham, Open University Press).