By Sheelagh Drudy, Maeve Martin, John O'Flynn, Mairide Woods
The instructing of children has lengthy been ruled by means of ladies. This worldwide phenomenon is firmly rooted in matters regarding monetary improvement, urbanization, the placement of ladies in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the values of kids and childcare. but, among the media scare tales and ethical panics approximately underachieving boys, there are unusually few empirically-supported solutions to very important questions such as:
- Is the feminisation of educating rather a problem?
- How is the connection of gender and instructing thought of inside of a framework of feminist theory?
- What are the perceptions of scholars of educating, compared to different professions?
- Why are so few males interested in teaching?
- Can extra males be attracted into the classroom?
The authors of this groundbreaking publication have undertaken the most important, so much in-depth examine ever performed in this subject, so one can examine either lecturers and scholars' perspectives throughout basic schooling.
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5 As primary education is the most feminised sector of the teaching profession there was a particular emphasis in the research on ascertaining choice of primary teaching, and attitudes to it, among school leavers and college students. Furthermore, primary teaching courses are the principal teacher education courses available to school leavers through the higher education central applications system, apart from a small number of places available on second level specialist programmes for areas such as home economics, technology and physical education.
000). Girls were more likely than boys to perceive a job in social work and primary teaching as offering most satisfaction. Boys were more likely than girls to perceive engineer, computer programmer, television producer and, to a lesser extent, secondary teacher in this light. A similar pattern was in evidence on second and third choices. Those who intended to put primary teaching as their first degree choice (almost 7 per cent of the respondents) were more likely than others to see primary teaching as giving most job satisfaction—51 per cent of this group, almost all girls.
Men and the classroom 42 No other career came even close to this figure. There were some gender differences with regard to the other occupations. An interesting feature was that 9 per cent of female school leavers, but hardly any of the male school leavers, refused to choose—some stating that the question was sexist. The distributions on the figure above refer to those who did indicate a view on the selected occupations and do not include the 9 per cent. Male school leavers and student teachers were more likely to view lawyer, doctor and secondary teacher as most suited to men.
