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Questioning Assumptions About Male Educators

Questioning Assumptions About Male Educators. Janice Wallace, PhD Educational Policy Studies University of Alberta. How can we increase the number of male elementary teachers and male role models to enhance the learning success of boys…. What is driving the high interest in this question?.

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Questioning Assumptions About Male Educators

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  1. Questioning Assumptions About Male Educators Janice Wallace, PhD Educational Policy Studies University of Alberta

  2. How can we increase the number of male elementary teachers and male role models to enhance the learning success of boys… • What is driving the high interest in this question? • Is there a clear link between the learning performance of boys and male teachers?

  3. There are a complex set of inter-related economic, social, and political factors that are at play in the choices males and females make when considering a career in education.

  4. Males contemplating teaching positions that are most stereotypically attached to female interests are caught between • the feminized expectations for working with young children • traditional masculine ideals • and unchallenged homophobia that fuels fears about men working with young children.

  5. Male elementary teachers often compensate by assuming a hyper-masculinized persona (Connell, 1989, Francis & Skelton, 2001) or simply leave teaching to find jobs in more traditional grades for male teachers (Ferguson, 2005).

  6. Making the decision to become a teacher…

  7. Gender/Age Cross-tabulation

  8. Did you consider other professions? • Males … 61/64 or 95% considered and many had prepared for or participated in other professions/jobs. None said that they always wanted to be a teacher. • Females … 219/277 or 79% said they had considered and some had prepared for or participated in other professions. 4 said they always knew they wanted to be a teacher

  9. What influences the decision to become a teacher?

  10. Positive Influences for Becoming a Teacher

  11. Negative Influences for Becoming a Teacher

  12. What do beginning teachers say about encouraging more males to think about teaching?

  13. QUESTIONS ?

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