2012
Germany – The male kindergarten teacher
As Germany expands daycare provision for the nation’s children, one thing that is missing from the picture, all too often, are male teachers. Kate Hairsine tracked down some of the country’s rare male child care professionals. On a small piece of woodland next to the Technido daycare centre in Karlsruhe, a group of boys noisily […]
Read MoreMenTeach gathering in New England a Success!
On the first Saturday in October MenTeach-New England held its Fall meeting in the Boston inner city Neighborhood of Mattapan, MA. Clarence Little provided was host as director of the Grove Hall Child Development Center and almost 20 people attended. People came from as far away as Springfield and Northampton, MA and from Hanover and […]
Read MoreDenmark: Training and education of men at a social policy level
The dissertation deals with men’s choice of traiing and education within care work. Specifically, the dissertation deals with training and education as educationist and as social and healthcare assistant such as, at an overall social policy level, this choice has been identified as an unusual choice for men. The identification of usual and unusual choices […]
Read MoreKitas Tour of Hamburg Germany
I’m here in Berlin, Germany attending the The International Conference “Men in Early Childhood Education and Care,”where a couple hundred attendees from all over the world have gathered. About 15 of us were invited to come early to tour one of the more successful pilot programs to recruit more men in Hamburg (a large northern […]
Read MoreDoes Gender Make a Difference? First results from the German ‘tandem study’ of female and male ECE workers
Paper presented on the international conference “Men in early childhood education and care”, Berlin 2012 [MenTeach: At the international conference Men in early childhood education and care” in Berlin 2012 I had the opportunity to talk with both Dr. Holger Brandes and Markus Andrä about their research. Dr. Brandes presentation (in German with English interpreters) […]
Read MoreFathers who teach – Study Opportunity
Study Opportunity: Justin Hendricks, a graduate student at the University of Florida, is looking to recruit fathers who teach in order to understand how men’s teaching experience benefits their children. Participation involves a 2 hour video or voice call and participants will receive $25 for their participation. Contact Justin by email at justinhendricks@ufl.edu or by […]
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