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Objects of Conflict: (Re) Configuring Early Childhood Experiences of Gender in the Preschool Classroom
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Lyttleton-Smith, Jennifer – Gender and Education, 2019
This qualitative research paper discusses how the material environment of preschool classrooms contributes to early childhood experiences of gender. It applies poststructuralist and posthumanist concepts -- primarily Barad's agential-realism -- to analyse ethnographic data extracts drawn from the author's semi-longitudinal study in a UK nursery.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Classroom Environment, Social Attitudes
Who Cares for Carers? How Discursive Constructions of Care Work Marginalized Early Childhood Educators in Ontario's 2018 Provincial Election
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Powell, Alana; Langford, Rachel; Albanese, Patrizia; Prentice, Susan; Bezanson, Kate – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
In the Canadian province of Ontario, the early childhood education and care workforce continues to be undervalued, underpaid and burdened with challenging working conditions. Drawing on Fairclough and Lazar, this study employed a feminist critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses of care work present in the 2018 childcare platforms of…
Descriptors: Elections, Child Caregivers, Political Attitudes, Discourse Analysis
When Boys Won't Be Boys: Discussing Gender with Young Children
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Katch, Hannah; Katch, Jane – Harvard Educational Review, 2010
In this Voices Inside Schools essay, Hannah Katch and Jane Katch reflect on gender roles and how they are enacted in the classroom. When Timothy, a student in Jane's kindergarten class, refuses to count himself as one of the boys during a math lesson, Jane begins a conversation about social constructions of gender with her daughter, Hannah.…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Young Children, Kindergarten, Gender Issues
Block Play: It's Not Just for Boys Anymore--Strategies for Encouraging Girls' Block Play
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Tokarz, Barb – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
While block play is essential for both boys' and girls' social, cognitive, language, and motor development, girls do not engage in block play as frequently as boys. This situation can be attributed to the socialization process--children learn societal expectations for behavior and materials for both boys and girls--lack of experience for girls…
Descriptors: Play, Females, Young Children, Manipulative Materials
Understanding Gender through Disney's Marriages: A Study of Young Korean Immigrant Girls
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Lee, Lena – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
Much American popular culture has often been criticized for its negative portrayals of females and its potentially harmful influence on young children. However, there are insufficient studies about American young girls' actual understanding of these female representations. Specifically, the perspectives of young immigrant girls have hardly been…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Females, Cultural Influences, Social Values
Gender, the Labour Market, the Workplace and Policy in Children's Services: Parent, Staff and Student Attitudes
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Lyons, Michael; Quinn, Andrea; Sumsion, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2005
This paper reports the attitudes of parents, staff and teacher education students towards the employment of men in the children's services "industry". The attitudinal survey questions were grouped around four distinct issues: gender roles, labour market behaviour, workplace behaviour and policy. Surprisingly, all three stakeholder groups…
Descriptors: Role Models, Student Attitudes, Labor Market, Recruitment