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Sullivan, Victoria; Coles, Laetitia; Xu, Yuwei; Thorpe, Karen – Gender and Education, 2023
Retention rates for men in early childhood education and care (ECEC) are low. Exit is associated with experience of feeling 'other' perpetuated by judgements of men's sexuality, motives, and ability. In this paper, we take the unique circumstance of many men working together in ECEC to ask whether more men on staff improves experiences of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Child Care, Males
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Poblete Núñez, Ximena – Gender and Education, 2020
In this paper, I discuss how professional identities in early childhood education in Chile are performatively constituted within the interplay between a religious discourse of vocation and gender. 'Having the vocation' has become a regime of truth that regulates and governs educators' behaviours, motivations and relationships in their workplace.…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Gender Differences, Professional Identity, Early Childhood Education