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Men's Career Choices in Early Childhood Education and Care -- An Embodied Intersectionality Perspective
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Ljunggren, Birgitte; Eidevald, Christian – Gender and Education, 2023
The workforce in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is highly gender-segregated with a majority of women. Gender-sensitive professionalization is regarded a way to recruit more men, but there is a call for more empirical research into perspectives that combines bodily aspects of gender, professionalization and men`s career choices. Applying…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Males, Career Choice
Doing Research in Indonesia and Sweden on the Ambivalence of Care and Masculinity in ECEC; Challenging Dominant Norms through Ethnographic Methodology
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Hellman, Anette – Ethnography and Education, 2021
The aim of the article is to explore norms about care and masculinity in early childhood education and care settings in Indonesia and Sweden. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, it is shown how care in the two nations was produced as ambivalent for men, causing a risk of being accused of working with children for the wrong reasons. Two…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Masculinity, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
Gender Perspectives on Vocational Education: Historical, Cultural and Policy Aspects.
Gonon, Philipp, Ed.; Haefeli, Kurt, Ed.; Heikkinen, Anja, Ed.; Ludwig, Iris, Ed. – 2001
In addition to an "Introduction" (Gonon, et. al), there are these 18 essays: "Women and Men in Swiss Vocational Education (Borkowsy); "Women in Basic and Advanced Training" (Grossenbacher); "How Constitutional Change and Legal Reform Projects Foster Equal Opportunities in the Fields of Vocational Education and Higher…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice