Troubling the Male Role Modelling Theory: Male Teachers as Role Models for Girls?

Autor/inn/en	Moosa, Shaaista; Bhana, Deevia
Titel	Troubling the Male Role Modelling Theory: Male Teachers as Role Models for Girls?
Quelle	In: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 27 (2019) 6, S.888-901 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-293X
DOI	10.1080/1350293X.2019.1678931
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Role Models; Teacher Characteristics; Sex Role; Foreign Countries; Males; Elementary School Teachers; Student Characteristics; Caring; Masculinity; Teacher Attitudes; Elementary School Students; Teacher Student Relationship; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Identifikationsfigur; Geschlechterrolle; Ausland; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Männlichkeit; Lehrerverhalten; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The teaching of young children or Foundation Phase (FP) teaching as it is known in South Africa continues to be regarded as 'women's work'. Lately South African research has focused on encouraging men's participation as FP teachers. In this paper, we offer a critical examination of how South African primary school teachers 'embrace' the need for men in FP by drawing on discursive strategies that view men as vital male role models for young girls. This contrasts more common role modelling discourses which call for male teachers to act as role models for boys. One argument put forth was that male FP teachers could help shape acceptable ways of 'doing girl'. Secondly, a 'daddy's girl' discourse was used to construct male teachers as favourable role models for girls. Lastly, male teachers were considered as role models in order to expose girls to alternate, non-violent and caring masculinities. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01