It takes team effort : men and women working together to enhance children's lives / edited by Lemuel W. Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Lemuel W. (Lemuel Warren), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education.

Male early childhood teachers.

Sex differences in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 p.)

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing Inc., 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the many ways and opportunities in which men and women might work together to highlight creative ways as well as examine the role of men in schools, families, and community engagement. The book helps to broaden the group's "collective identity" of those who work with male teachers and caregivers by expanding an understanding of their experiences in order to better ways of collaboration. This book serves as a practical guide and resource to challenge the status quo in following our own intuition about our life's work as men and women in early childhood education.The central theme that is sought here is to remember the general purpose of education: to enlighten for multiple purposes and to ask the resounding questions of how do we best achieve this purpose as men and women working together without the confines of gender roles, especially as educators in early childhood and the general educational setting where gender roles are specific to men and women's perceived ways of caring, nurturing, providing, and educating future generations.

Contents:

Preface / Lemuel W. Watson

Chapter 1. Understanding the context of early childhood and best practices from a social-cultural perspective / Lemuel W. Watson

Chapter 2. Being a man in the early childhood classroom: Challenging some assumptions about our roles and responsibilities / Jamison Browder and Herman Knopf

Chapter 3. Men in the field of early care and education: Perceptions of male and female early childhood professionals / Angela C. Baum, Kerrie L. Welsh, and Nancy K. Freeman

Chapter 4. Why can't men care for children? The development of a male nurturer / Darryl B. Holloman

Chapter 5. Being in the minority: A comparative and contrasting perspective of two early childhood education professors / Reginald Williams and Herman Knopf

Chapter 6. Empowering children through gender diversity / Jeff Daitsman

Chapter 7. Learning to hear the unspoken, learning to see beyond myself: One man's journey to a more caring masculinity / Terence A. Beck

Chapter 8. Women and men teaching children together: A global analysis / Margaret Asalele Mbilizi

Chapter 9. Conclusion / Lemuel W. Watson

Biographies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-92) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-62396-561-6