Dr YUWEI XU Yuwei.Xu@nottingham.ac.uk
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Abstract
This entry provides a critical overview of men working in early childhood education (ECE). It covers the rationales for men’s participation in ECE, the recruitment and retention of men in the ECE workforce, and men’s subjective working experiences; drawing on intersectional and cross-cultural perspectives. Internationally, ECE has long been a workforce with predominantly women staff members. Statistics to date show that in most countries, no more than 3% of ECE workforce are men (Xu, 2020a; Warin, Wilkinson, & Greaves, 2021). This low participation rate is broadly attributed to the traditional perception that education and care for young children is women’s work. However, recent scholarship (e.g., Brody et al., 2021) has pointed to increasingly complex and culturally variant contexts that shape men’s participation in ECE.
Citation
Wang, D., Chen, L., & XU, Y. (in press). Men in Early Childhood Education. In The Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Early Childhoods and Childhood Studies. Bloomsbury Publishing
Deposit Date
Aug 27, 2024
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Peer Reviewed
Peer Reviewed
Book Title
The Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Early Childhoods and Childhood Studies
Keywords
men, early childhood education, workforce, gender equality
