Early Childhood Education’s Pursuit For More Male Exemplary Educators

Allude back to the infantile and juvenile intervals of your life cycle, when you were enrolled in early learning programs—like Head Start, preschool, kindergarten, and the remainder your rudimental educational stages. Now, attempt to recollect the number of male educators you had during these early learning programs. If your recollection could not process any early male educators, you are a member of the gargantuan proportion of individuals who have been affected by the societal construction our society has compelled us to internalize, educationally.

First and foremost, early childhood education denoted is a social institution where children from infantile to juvenile years are educated and socially indoctrinated through stratified learning programs; “referred to as nursery school, child care, day care, preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade” (Biddle 3). This socialized institution is prevalently regulated by women, and is incalculably deprived of men. According to a parameter obtained in 2011 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately “2.3% of 707,000” preschool and kindergarten educators, and “18.3% of 2,848,000” elementary and middle school educators are men (MenTeach). Why are the gender gaps in early childhood education so prolonged and elongated; why are early childhood male exemplary educators so inadequate in quantity?

In Early Childhood Education: Becoming a Professional, Professor Kimberly Biddle (PhD in Child and Adolescent Development) presents the assertion, “males involvement has a powerful impact on the lives of children, and it has been well established that their involvement is just as important, if not more important, than that of their female counterparts” (...

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Works Cited

Benokraitis, Nijole V. SOC3. 2014 student ed. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning, 2014. Print.

Biddle, Kimberly A. Gordon, Ana Garcia-Nevarez, Wanda J. Roundtree Henderson, and Alicia Valero-Kerrick. Early Childhood Education: Becoming A Professional. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2013. Print.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2012-13 Edition, Kindergarten and Elementary School Teachers, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/kindergarten-and-elementary-school-teachers.htm (visited November 18, 2013).

MenTeach. "Data About Men Teachers." MenTeach. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. .