TY - BOOK ID - 8135693 TI - Go where you belong : male teachers as cultural workers in the lives of children, families, and communities AU - Watson, Lemuel W. AU - Woods, C. Sheldon. PY - 2011 SN - 9460914055 9460914063 9786613695512 1280785128 PB - Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Community and school. KW - Male teachers. KW - Teachers and community. KW - Education KW - Social Sciences KW - Theory & Practice of Education KW - Education, Special Topics KW - Male teachers KW - Social conditions. KW - Men teachers KW - Education. KW - Educational sociology. KW - Education and sociology. KW - Sociology, Educational. KW - Sociology of Education. KW - Teachers KW - Education and sociology KW - Social problems in education KW - Society and education KW - Sociology, Educational KW - Sociology KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Aims and objectives KW - Sciences sociales. KW - Community and teachers KW - Teacher participation in the community KW - Communities KW - School and community KW - Parents' and teachers' associations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8135693 AB - The narratives in this book engage the reader and take him or her on a journey to understanding of what it means to be a male teacher who works in early childhood education or with young children. They passionately share of their challenges to be involved in children’s lives because they are called to do so; this work is part of their life purpose. Their narratives details interactions between the teacher and the day-to-day lives of students, parents, peers and supervisors while sharing what it takes to survive as a man in what is perceived, very often in our post-modern world as women’s work. In the bigger scheme of things, the men teachers serve as cultural workers with their female peers to educate not only our children but our community and eventually ourselves about gender roles in our society and the need to have more role models during the first years of schooling. A fascinating book and a must read for parents, teachers, administrators, and other human service professionals who want to learn more about how to engage men in the lives of children. ER -