Young Children’s Perspectives on Teacher Gender Contextualizing Gender Stereotypes and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care

Part 1: Researching Young Children's Perspectives on Their Teachers' Gender in a Global Context

Chapter 1:  Introduction
David Brody, Kari Emilsen, Helen Lyndon

Chapter 2: A cross-cultural theoretical framework for understanding children’s perspectives of gender in early childhood education and care (ECEC) across countries
Yuwei Xu, Birgitte Ljunggren, Deevia Bhana

Chapter 3: Methodology for an international collaborative project
Laetitia Coles, Yael Dayan, Mindi Reich-Shapiro, Minyi Li

Part 2: Case Studies across the Global South and North

Chapter 4: Chinese young children’s perspectives on gender and their teachers in a high-socio-economic-status kindergarten
Jingyun Zhang, Zhuoran Chen, Yan Zhu, Yuwei Xu, Minyi Li

Chapter 5: “He Plays, and She Teaches”: Perspectives of Brazilian children on their teachers in ECEC
Ricardo Gonçalves de Sousa, Sandro Vinicius Sales dos Santos

Chapter 6: Challenges and Opportunities: The politics of gender in South African Early Childhood Education and Care
Shaaista Moosa, Deevia Bhana

Chapter 7: “One paints the caravan, and one stays out of the caravan”: Children’s perspectives of their educators’ gender in an Australian ECEC service
Laetitia Coles, Emma Cooke, Victoria Sullivan, Sandy Houen, Karen Thorpe

Chapter 8: “She is a medic. She was a medic in the army”: Children’s silence on their teachers’ gender in an Israeli forest kindergarten
Yael Dayan, Daniel Gordon, David L. Brody

Chapter 9: How do young Turkish children perceive the gender of their teachers?
A case study
Ramazan Sak, İkbal Tuba Şahin-Sak

Chapter 10: Exploring the (co)construction of non-binary gender patterns: the Norwegian case
Birgitte Ljunggren, Kari Emilsen

Chapter 11: “She is pretty and sparkly; he is a good teacher” Is it the teacher or their gender that counts? England case study

Tracey Edwards, Helen Lyndon

Chapter 12: “Because He’s My Second Favorite Teacher”: A New York City (NYC) Case Study Exploring Children’s Perceptions of Their Teachers’ Gender

Mindi Reich-Shapiro, Christie Martin Aviles

Part 3: Findings, Implications, and Future Directions

Chapter 13: Cross Country Analysis: How contexts shape children’s perspectives of their male and female educators

Laetitia Coles, Yael Dayan, & Kari Emilsen

Chapter 14: Chapter 14: Insights and the importance of (researching) children’s perspectives on gender

David Brody, Yuwei Xu

Biography

David Brody is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Orot College of Education, Israel.

Yuwei Xu is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Kari Emilsen is Professor of Early Childhood Education at Queen Maud University College (QMUC), Norway.

Laetitia Coles is Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), The University of Queensland, Australia.