Claire Cameron, Peter Moss, Charlie Owen

Men in the Nursery

Gender and Caring Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together what is currently known about men working in childcare settings. The authors consider the issues involved in gender and childcare, look at the structure of early childcare services in the UK and European contexts, and consider how men came to work in childcare settings. Further chapters explore parents' views, staff dynamics and child protection issues. The voices and views of childcare workers are heard throughout this unique book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781853963889
• ISBN-10: 1853963887
• Artikelnr.: 21298535

Autorenporträt

Claire Cameron is Reader in Education at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She has carried out research on children and young people, children¿s services and the children¿s workforce for over 20 years, with a particular interest in young people in institutional and marginalised circumstances and in care and education, and the interface between the two. She has a long-standing interest in European comparative research and was coordinator of the Young People from a Public Care Background: Pathways to Education in Europe (YiPPEE) study, funded by the European Commission¿s Framework Programme 7. Her interests also span the European professional of social pedagogy and what this may have to offer to professional practice with children and young people in the United Kingdom.  

Inhaltsangabe

Childcare Work and Gender
An Introduction
Mapping and Sourcing
How Do Men and Women Come to Be Childcare Workers?
The Institution
Gendered Practice
Practice with Parents
Parents¿ Response to Men Childcare Workers
Child Protection and Equality
Dilemmas and Solutions
Men in the Nursery
Throwing Light on Gender in Caring Work

Rezensionen

`This book will be interesting to anyone working in childcare and education settings. It raises questions about what we want childcare to provide and offers us ideas about the types of role models we are giving our children if we do not give them access to male childcare workers' - New Childhood `Should men work in nurseries? Do they work differently from women? Isn't nursery work an extension of mothering and hence unsuitable for men? Do men provide positive roles for boys? Isn't there a danger that they will sexually abuse children? These are the questions this book asks. The authors dig and delve in a scholarly way [and] explore the findings of other researchers' - Children and Society