Gender balance in ECEC : why is there s little progres?
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- Jan Peeters (UGent) , Tim Rohrmann and Kari Emilsen
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- Social attitudes about male participation in the upbringing of children have changed considerably over the past few decades. Men are now seen as important for children’s development and learning. Research from many countries worldwide shows that in early childhood care and education (ECEC), male workers are welcomed by female colleagues and parents. In the last two decades there have been initiatives for more men in ECEC in several European countries. Nevertheless the proportion of male workers ECEC remains low worldwide. This article questions the persisting gender imbalance in ECEC and analyzes ambivalences regarding more men in the field. Based on recent gender theory, efforts and limits of strategies for more male students and workers in ECEC in Belgium, Norway and Germany are discussed. It is concluded that deeply held gendered attitudes and practices in the field of care and educational work with young children have to be put into question. More space in ECEC for embodied subjectivities is needed to overcome essentialist conceptions of differences between body and mind, women and men.
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- men in ECEC, gender balance, diversity, corporeality, gender, EARLY-CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, PLAY, WORKFORCE, WOMEN, MEN
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-6843000
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- Peeters, Jan, et al. “Gender Balance in ECEC : Why Is There s Little Progres?” EUROPEAN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL, vol. 23, no. 3, 2015, pp. 302–14, doi:10.1080/1350293X.2015.1043805.
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- Peeters, J., Rohrmann, T., & Emilsen, K. (2015). Gender balance in ECEC : why is there s little progres? EUROPEAN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL, 23(3), 302–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2015.1043805
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- Peeters, Jan, Tim Rohrmann, and Kari Emilsen. 2015. “Gender Balance in ECEC : Why Is There s Little Progres?” EUROPEAN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL 23 (3): 302–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2015.1043805.
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- Peeters, Jan, Tim Rohrmann, and Kari Emilsen. 2015. “Gender Balance in ECEC : Why Is There s Little Progres?” EUROPEAN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL 23 (3): 302–314. doi:10.1080/1350293X.2015.1043805.
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- 1.Peeters J, Rohrmann T, Emilsen K. Gender balance in ECEC : why is there s little progres? EUROPEAN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL. 2015;23(3):302–14.
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- [1]J. Peeters, T. Rohrmann, and K. Emilsen, “Gender balance in ECEC : why is there s little progres?,” EUROPEAN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 302–314, 2015.
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abstract = {{Social attitudes about male participation in the upbringing of children have changed considerably over the past few decades. Men are now seen as important for children’s development and learning. Research from many countries worldwide shows that in early childhood care and education (ECEC), male workers are welcomed by female colleagues and parents. In the last two decades there have been initiatives for more men in ECEC in several European countries.
Nevertheless the proportion of male workers ECEC remains low worldwide. This article questions the persisting gender imbalance in ECEC and analyzes ambivalences regarding more men in the field. Based on recent gender theory, efforts and limits of strategies for more male students and workers in ECEC in Belgium, Norway and Germany are discussed. It is concluded that deeply held gendered attitudes and practices in the field of care and educational work with young children have to be put into question. More space in ECEC for embodied
subjectivities is needed to overcome essentialist conceptions of differences between body and mind, women and men.}},
author = {{Peeters, Jan and Rohrmann, Tim and Emilsen, Kari}},
issn = {{1752-1807}},
journal = {{EUROPEAN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL}},
keywords = {{men in ECEC,gender balance,diversity,corporeality,gender,EARLY-CHILDHOOD EDUCATION,PLAY,WORKFORCE,WOMEN,MEN}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
pages = {{302--314}},
title = {{Gender balance in ECEC : why is there s little progres?}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2015.1043805}},
volume = {{23}},
year = {{2015}},
}
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