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Two articles about Men in Education: World Forum in Hawaii & NAEYC
Our World Forum Men in Early Childhood Education logo and webpage address is featured rather prominently in the latest issue of Exchange. It’s on page 79 and appears along the same row as a picture of five very muddy and somehow familiar looking boys from an early childhood program in Winnipeg, Canada J. Readers are […]
Read MoreWhere Are the Men? Promoting Gender Diversity in the Massachusetts Early Childhood Workforce
A group from the 2008 Community Advocates for Young Learners (CAYL) has developed a policy brief about men teachers. It is the first of it’s kind in Massachusett’s and offers ideas about the importance of gender diversity in education. CAYL is directed by Valora Washington, PhD. You can download the document as a PDF file at the […]
Read MoreStudent Perspective: Benefits to being a man in a female-dominated teaching position
Perhaps those who are surprised think it strange for a man to be going into teaching young children. That is valid, as there are not many male teachers. But the idea that men are not as suited for teaching as women is a cop-out. I find this notion similar to the expectation that female doctors […]
Read MoreJon Hamm (TV Actor) Talks About The Lack Of Positive Male Role Models
Get ready to fall even more in love with Jon Hamm. Seriously. There are new levels of adoration for this man and we’re about to discover them together. Hamm was recently a speaker at the Rape Treatment Center benefit brunch in Beverly Hills where he spoke about his pre-Mad Men employment history — which we […]
Read MoreMale Call: Recruiting More Men to Teach Elementary School
Public schools are searching for a few good men — male teachers, that is. Men accounted for less than one-fourth of all teachers in 2006, according to statistics released recently by the National Education Association (NEA), and there is little indication of that figure changing anytime soon. Although education has historically been a predominantly female […]
Read MoreCall for men to teach, become role models
They are the minority in every staff room but are highly in demand. Male teachers make up just one-fifth of the teaching population in Victorian state schools. In the Grampians region, there are 700 male teachers and 1328 female teachers in state schools. For the Catholic diocese of Ballarat, there are 934 female teachers and […]
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