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Bhana, Deevia; Moosa, Shaaista; Xu, Yuwei; Emilsen, Kari – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Globally, the underrepresentation of men in the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce is ongoing and has been largely attributed to the construction of ECEC as 'women's work'. Men's involvement in ECEC can help to deconstruct the feminisation of work and the gender binaries through which occupations are structured. Further to this,…
Descriptors: Males, Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Early Childhood Education
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Moosa, Shaaista; Bhana, Deevia – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
Gendered norms construct teaching young children in Early Childhood Education (ECE) as a 'feminine profession' and as 'women's work'. Subsequently, men who teach young children are often scrutinised. One troubling factor confronting men entering the profession is the construction of men as potential paedophiles. Scholars in the Global North have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Males, Gender Issues
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Mayeza, Emmanuel; Bhana, Deevia – South African Journal of Education, 2021
In this article, we draw on data from focus group discussions to examine the ways in which some young boys in a South African township primary school construct and negotiate hegemonic masculinity through bullying, and other forms of violence, within the school. Deviating from the simplistic victim-bully binary, we draw from critical masculinity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Males, Masculinity