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Men in Early Childhood Education: Their Emergent Issues

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Using a focus group approach, this study explored emergent issues for men in early childhood education. Preservice teachers, classroom teachers, and male professors identified 6 categories of issues including low salaries, family, and other influences on entering the field, teaching beyond the basics, improving preservice education, recruitment of males, and advantages and disadvantages of males in the field. Implications of the study focus on ways to create gender-fair classrooms.

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  1. College of Education, University of Wyoming, Box 3374, Laramie, Wyoming, 82072-3374

    Margaret H. Cooney

  2. University of Wyoming, Wyoming

    Mark T. Bittner

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Cooney, M.H., Bittner, M.T. Men in Early Childhood Education: Their Emergent Issues. Early Childhood Education Journal 29, 77–82 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012564610349

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