childcare; workforce; gender; training; competent system
Abstract :
[en] This article presents a study conducted in Federation Wallonia-Brussels (FWB) to identify factors that motivate men to enrol in training programmes and work in a field where women are the majority, in a context in which few proactive measures are taken to overcome gender stereotypes. Comprehensive interviews conducted with male childcare ‘informants’ who had been working with children under the age of three for at least a year in subsidised childcare centres helped us to identify factors which seemed to influence their decision to enrol in and
continue an initial training programme with a curriculum that is not genderneutral,
and then work in a profession that is almost exclusively female.
Disciplines :
Education & instruction
Author, co-author :
Pirard, Florence ; Université de Liège > Département Education et formation > PERF (Professionnalisation en Education : Rech.et Formation)
Schoenmaeckers, Pauline ; Université de Liège > Département Education et formation > PERF (Professionnalisation en Education : Rech.et Formation)
Camus, Pascale ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Education et Formation > PERF (Professionnalisation en Education : Rech.et Formation)
Language :
English
Title :
Men in childcare services: From enrolment in training programs to job retention
Publication date :
June 2015
Journal title :
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
ISSN :
1350-293X
eISSN :
1752-1807
Publisher :
Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London, United Kingdom
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