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Lake City man lives dream of being teacher
Rashad Myers said he discovered as a senior at Lake City High School that he wanted to become a teacher. He said his Chemistry II teacher was a role model to him and that he liked the idea of having a black male teacher. “Education is important and the key to success, no matter what […]
Read MoreGermany is spending loads of money to recruit male child care workers
Germany is spending loads of money to recruit male child care workers, launching expensive employment campaigns to attract more men into the profession. Many parents want their children to be educated by both men and women, but low wages mean efforts have met with little success so far. Guido Höper hasn’t finished his vocational training […]
Read MoreMilitary retiree wants to teach
I am a military retiree and corporate training professional for 12 years. My major was workforce education and development but I am about 12 credits short of my degree. As an African American male I have volunteered to go into the schools and be a role model but I have an interest in possibly doing […]
Read MoreGermany – 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 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 […]
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