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Transcript from a podcast – Wanted: Male elementary education teachers
It may not come as any surprise that there’s a shortage of male elementary teachers in the United States. But you may be surprised to learn how long the shortage has existed. Wichita State University education professor Dennis Kear explains. Kear: “The shortage of male teachers can be traced all the way back to the […]
Read MoreFear and Anti-Male Discrimination in the Classroom
In his book The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, Barry Glassner discusses how Americans have become unnecessarily fearful of many things, thanks in good part to opportunistic politicians, single-minded advocacy groups, sensationalist news media, “news magazine” programming and so on. Such irrational fear complexes can do profound and unjustified […]
Read MorePlease, sir! We need you to teach us
The children in Year 5 at St Elizabeth’s, in Litherland, are in a lucky minority. Their teacher, Thomas Cox, is male and their teaching assistant is a man, too. With soaring numbers of family break-ups, for some of these children these are the only adult males they’ll have regular contact with. But, despite the demand […]
Read MoreCan bankers make the grade as teachers?
The room was packed so full that they were standing at the back, but we were an orderly and attentive lot. “Hands up those of you who’ve been into a school recently,” our facilitator requested. A good number of hands shot up. “Those of you who didn’t put your hands up need to get into […]
Read MoreMore men teachers: Back to class for men in Australia
An Ipswich school is defying trends and putting men back in front of the class with more male teachers than women. St Edmund’s College has 33 male full-time teachers (57 per cent) and 25 female teachers (43 per cent) this year. But in comparison, there were almost seven female full-time teachers to one male teacher […]
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