The Study of Workplace Pressure on Male Preschool Educators

Autor: Hung, Wen-Chun, 洪文君
Rok vydání: 2019
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 107
The purpose of the study was to investigate the Male Preschool Educators who were dedicating in the early childhood education. Under the gender equality awareness, the male participants and correlational studies in the field were very few but occupied by the female for many years. Six in-service Male Preschool Educators as the object were included and analyzed in qualitative research. A semi-structured interview was adopted to collect the data, explore the current situation and pressure of the male educators in the workplace. There were four aims of this study: 1.Understand the state of Male Preschool Educators at work. 2.Investigate the pressure of Male Preschool Educators encountered. 3.Examine the coping strategies from the Male Preschool Educators. The conclusions based on the results are as follows: 1.The males take more physical education though the large amount of work for teachers and caregivers is the same between Male and Female. 2.The one being a teacher and the head of kindergarten is suffering from stress because of the heavy administrative workload. 3.One of the pressures on Male Preschool Educators is from the difficulty of blending into the female group. 4.Male Preschool Educators especially and carefully avoid unnecessary body contact with children to allay the concern from Parents. 5.Male Preschool Educators make more efforts to communicate with Parents for good relationship and break the gender stereotype. 6.Resilience or self-adjustment is the strategy most of Male Preschool Educators used when encounter and ease the pressure. Finally, according to the conclusions and findings on the Educational authority、preschool administrative unit and Male or Female Preschool Educators, the specific suggestions are proposed as a reference.
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