Men in Early Childhood Education and Care by Jo Warin

Author:Jo Warin
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Conclusion

In this chapter I have examined research and ideas about the complementarity and interchangeability of men’s and women’s roles within the family, to help us understand more about gendered pedagogies with young children. I have drawn on the fatherhood literature to show that men are as capable as women to respond sensitively to young children. This means that men’s contribution to ECEC can be seen as interchangeable with women’s contribution. I have asked, given this, why gender continues to divide labour within the parallel institutions of the family and the ECE. I have shown that institutional behaviours reinforce the gender order through the power of the gender binary to construct masculine and feminine roles and identities in opposition to each other. I’ve also considered how the presence of male practitioners may draw more fathers in to ECEC, and how this connection may also provide the basis for building a recruitment strategy targeted at men who are fathers, an idea that will be picked up in Chap. 7. I have touched on issues about the diversity of men’s and women’s practices in the family and on the equity of their childcare roles and responsibilities. In the next chapter I put the concept of care in the spotlight and focus on the ways that gender mediates care diversity and care equity.

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