Male Kindergarten Teachers In The Entry And Adaptation Studies

For long time, early childhood education is female-teacher-dominated. However, with the development of economy and the progress of the society, people find out that the balance of the teachers' gender constitution is of great importance for children in their personality development. The field of early childhood education has to introduce male teachers into practice right away.However, the male teachers in the kindergarten are not only qualitatively few, but distributing unbalanced, and the rate of going away is very high. This research uses observation and interview for the sake of extending directly to the male teacher's life world and the heart of hearts. By study the male teacher's experiences of going into and adapting to the occupation, whose majors, positions, and lengths of service are varied, the researcher analyses the reasons why they go into the occupation and what pressures they have been facing in the course of adapting to the occupation. On the basis of the analysis, the researcher explores the reasons for the lack of male teacher in the kindergarten, and then attempts to make suggestions for male teacher's training and progress.The researcher discovers that there are two the main factors influencing male teacher to go into and adapt the occupation, one is gender isolation occupation owing to traditional gender stereotype, another is the low economy, social status of kindergarten teachers. These factors not only have impact on the males' choice of a kindergarten teacher's occupation, make the male teachers face many pressures and difficulties in adapting to the occupation, but also result in the lack of male teachers. To thoroughly solve the problem needs the government, the public opinion, the baby guardian, the kindergarten and male teacher himself to make unceasingly efforts.