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Direct linkMoosa, 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
Khumalo, Sinakekelwe; Mabaso, Musawenkosi; Makusha, Tawanda; Taylor, Myra – SAGE Open, 2021
The university period provides a critical developmental transition from adolescence to adulthood. During this period, young people establish patterns of behaviors and make lifestyle choices that affect their current and future health. Using the social constructionist paradigm that examines the development of masculinities as a mutual construct of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masculinity, Sexuality, Males
Walker, Gavin Robert – Gender and Education, 2022
During South Africa's apartheid era, the social and political ideology of Afrikaner nationalism Othered those who disrupted an idealised vision of white heteronormative Afrikaner masculinity. While protections from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation were enshrined in the post-apartheid constitution in 1996, anti-LGBTQ violence…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Political Attitudes, Social Change, Racial Segregation
Suransky, Caroline; van der Merwe, J. C. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2016
Twenty years after Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa, deeply entrenched inequalities and injustices are still at the core of the country's social fabric. South Africa's public and private sectors continue to battle with the situation and higher education institutions are no exception. The South African Ministry of Education has…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Social Change, Organizational Culture, Student Leadership
Bhana, Deevia; Moosa, Shaaista – Gender and Education, 2016
Drawing on a qualitative interview-based study, this article foregrounds the perspectives of a group of male pre-service teachers at a South African university for choosing "not" to specialise in the teaching of young children. Male pre-service teachers in this study associate with teaching older learners in the senior phases,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Males, Masculinity
Danielsson, Anna Teresia; Linder, Cedric – Gender and Education, 2009
Drawing on a study that explores university students' experiences of doing laboratory work in physics, this article outlines a proposed conceptual framework for extending the exploration of the gendered experience of learning. In this framework situated cognition and post-structural gender theory are merged together. By drawing on data that aim at…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Teaching Methods, College Science
