It takes team effort : men and women working together to enhance children's lives

This book explores the many ways and opportunities in which men and women might work together to highlight creative ways as well as examine the role of men in schools, families, and community engagement. The book helps to broaden the group's "collective identity" of those who work wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Watson, Lemuel W. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP - Information Age Publishing, [2014]
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806612406
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-561-7
Physical Description1 online resource (104 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Lemuel W. Watson
  • Chapter 1. Understanding the context of early childhood and best practices from a social-cultural perspective / Lemuel W. Watson
  • Chapter 2. Being a man in the early childhood classroom: Challenging some assumptions about our roles and responsibilities / Jamison Browder and Herman Knopf
  • Chapter 3. Men in the field of early care and education: Perceptions of male and female early childhood professionals / Angela C. Baum, Kerrie L. Welsh, and Nancy K. Freeman
  • Chapter 4. Why can't men care for children? The development of a male nurturer / Darryl B. Holloman
  • Chapter 5. Being in the minority: A comparative and contrasting perspective of two early childhood education professors / Reginald Williams and Herman Knopf
  • Chapter 6. Empowering children through gender diversity / Jeff Daitsman
  • Chapter 7. Learning to hear the unspoken, learning to see beyond myself: One man's journey to a more caring masculinity / Terence A. Beck
  • Chapter 8. Women and men teaching children together: A global analysis / Margaret Asalele Mbilizi
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion / Lemuel W. Watson
  • Biographies.