Male Teacher Retention

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This paper discusses how the prominence of males in early childhood education is low due to a variety of reasons such as low pay, subtle discrimination and social isolation. It attempts to analyze why the five percent of American men that can be found in early childhood education actually remain in the field. It also examines how the views of men in early childhood by staff and administrators impact male teacher retention.

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"Further, our society has a wide-spread and overwhelming belief that men are not as adept at educating and caring for young children as are women (Kennedy 1991; Neugebauer 1994). This pervasive belief actively keeps young men from entering the profession. As a result, young men who enter early childhood education often find that their abilities and talents are often negated by parents, teachers and coworkers who assume that their professional abilities are less than those of their female peers. Further, this belief can affect career counseling, hiring decisions and teacher education programs, making it difficult to recruit new male teachers of young children (Seifert 1988)."

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