Full Description
This book draws on ethnographic studies in nine countries across six continents to examine children's perspectives on their male and female teachers.
Contributors from China, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Israel, Turkey, Norway, UK, and the USA present case studies based on early childhood education sites where both men and women work. Using the Mosaic approach, the book uses data collected through various methodologies, along with extensive observations and interviews with setting directors, teachers, and parents. The chapters highlight the children's perspectives on their caregivers and teachers within their socio-cultural contexts. The authors also consider macro-level cultural contexts to enhance the micro-picture from the children's evidence and demonstrate how children's perspectives are influenced by various ecologies and cultural contexts, with intersectionality such as tradition, race, and religion playing important roles. The book ends with a cross-country analysis and recommendations for gender-sensitive pedagogies that consider local cultural gender sensibilities.
This groundbreaking book will appeal to scholars and researchers in early childhood education, gender and sexuality in education, and diversity and equity in education.
Contents
Part 1: Researching Young Children's Perspectives on Their Teachers' Gender in a Global Con-text 1. Introduction 2. A cross-cultural theoretical framework for understanding children's perspectives of gender in early childhood education and care (ECEC) across countries 3. Methodology for an international collaborative project Part 2: Case Studies across the Global South and North 4. Chinese young children's perspectives on gender and their teachers in a high-socio-economic-status kindergarten 5. "He Plays, and She Teaches": Perspectives of Brazilian children on their teachers in ECEC 6. Challenges and Opportunities: The politics of gender in South African Early Child-hood Education and Care 7. "One paints the caravan, and one stays out of the caravan": Children's perspectives of their educators' gender in an Australian ECEC service 8. "She is a medic. She was a medic in the army": Children's silence on their teachers' gender in an Israeli forest kindergarten 9. How do young Turkish children perceive the gender of their teachers? A case study 10. Exploring the (co)construction of non-binary gender patterns: the Norwegian case 11. "She is pretty and sparkly; he is a good teacher" Is it the teacher or their gender that counts? England case study 12. "Because He's My Second Favorite Teacher": A New York City (NYC) Case Study Exploring Children's Perceptions of Their Teachers' Gender Part 3: Findings, Implications, and Future Directions 13. Cross Country Analysis: How contexts shape children's perspectives of their male and female educators 14. Insights and the importance of (researching) children's perspectives on gender
