ERIC Number: EJ1071888
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 11
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Doing Gender and Professionalism: Exploring the Intersectionalities of Gender and Professionalization in Early Childhood Education
Tennhoff, Wiebke; Nentwich, Julia C.; Vogt, Franziska
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, v23 n3 p340-350 2015
Men in early childhood education (ECE) are subjected to different discourses: while they are facing serious mistrust on the one hand, their otherness to the field is also interpreted as new and potentially innovative on the other hand. This article explores how male childcare workers create and take up different subject positions by drawing on these competing discourses in order to acquire a legitimate position as men in the female-dominated context of Swiss day-care centers. In constructing themselves as professionals they create a subject position that seems to move beyond the gender binary. Analysing the position of the professional in depth, the article first shows how this position is accomplished and then explores how gender unfolds between the lines by infusing professionalism with masculinity.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Males, Child Caregivers, Professional Identity, Masculinity, Gender Issues, Discourse Analysis, Social Attitudes, Child Care Centers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Switzerland
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