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Meet Ireland’s male pre-school teachers keen to banish gender stereotypes
A group of male pre-school teachers are keen to banish gender stereotypes linked with the childcare industry as they lead the way for men entering the sector. Mark Walsh, Eduardo Heredia and Maidar Gutierrez, who are employed as male childcare workers at Generation Education pre-school in Glounthaune, are calling for more career guidance counsellors in […]
Read MoreMen in United Kingdom ‘face prejudice when working in childcare’
A male childminder has opened up on the prejudices encountered by men in the childcare industry. Leigh Walker says that men who choose a career in childcare often face additional hurdles in comparison to their female colleagues due to the stigma of a man working with young children. He began working as a childminder nine […]
Read MoreGrambling State University, in Louisiana, hosted first ever Call Me Mister Conference to develop more black male educators
Grambling State University hosted their first ever called me a mister conference the university’s black male teacher initiative of partner with Clemson university’s program where was first created to help develop and recruit more African American males answer the teaching profession. The program strives to increase the pool of available male teachers from a more […]
Read MoreJust a quarter of a city teachers are men in United Kingdom
Figures from the Department of Education (DfE) have revealed that male teachers make up just a quarter of the Bury school workforce. They found that out of 1,725 in state-funded schools in Bury as of November 2021, just 418 of them were men. This means male teachers only make up 24.2 per cent of the […]
Read MoreNew Jersey College Scholarship Aids Future Black Male School Teachers
“Across the country, about 20% of teachers are people of color, and Black men make up a mere 2% of all U.S. teachers,” said Sharon Harden, Pillar College Program Chair of Elementary Education. “In Newark, that percentage is slightly higher, around 8%”. That is still too low, and that is why Pillar College is on […]
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