Performing the (Religious) Educator's Vocation. Becoming the 'Good' Early Childhood Practitioner in Chile

Autor/in	Poblete Núñez, Ximena
Titel	Performing the (Religious) Educator's Vocation. Becoming the 'Good' Early Childhood Practitioner in Chile
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 32 (2020) 8, S.1072-1089 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Poblete Núñez, Ximena)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2018.1554180
Schlagwörter	Religious Education; Gender Differences; Professional Identity; Early Childhood Education; Correlation; Feminism; Females; Preschool Teachers; Caring; Altruism; Religious Factors; Discourse Analysis; Moral Values; Labor Force; Work Environment; Foreign Countries; Chile + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Geschlechterkonflikt; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Korrelation; Feminismus; Weibliches Geschlecht; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Diskursanalyse; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Arbeitsmilieu; Ausland
Abstract	In this paper, I discuss how professional identities in early childhood education in Chile are performatively constituted within the interplay between a religious discourse of vocation and gender. 'Having the vocation' has become a regime of truth that regulates and governs educators' behaviours, motivations and relationships in their workplace. By deconstructing the concept of vocation through a poststructuralist and feminist theory, I show the arising tensions in this discourse, emphasising that it positions female early childhood educators as a subject of both exploitation and admiration. Vocation shapes early years practitioners not only as nurturing and caring, but deeply altruist, devoted and self-sacrificed women seeking (eternal) salvation. Exposing the contradictory nature of this discourse, the article highlights its tensions with the professionalization of the early years workforce. Whilst vocation situates practitioners as good educators and morally good women, it allows for workforce exploitation, trapping them in hazardous working conditions. (As Provided).
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