Exploring student teachers’ beliefs about male teachers’ teaching in kindergarten
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2025-07
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Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
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"Nowadays, there are a lot of language teachers in different levels and areas of education. However, in kindergarten institutions it is not common to see male language teachers working as language instructors. In response to this fact, this research aims to examine the beliefs of student teachers working at kindergarten institutions as language teachers. The interest in developing this study grew up from the experience of the researcher of this work, working as a language teacher at a kindergarten. In such experience, I realized teachers are normally female teachers and are the most accepted by children´s parents and by administrators. This study therefore aims to know language teachers´ opinions about male language teachers working in kindergarten institutions. Drawing on semi-structured interviews this investigation collected the beliefs of three male student teachers working in three different kindergarten contexts. The study explored three main issues as follows: significance of kindergarten education, teachers’ challenges in kindergarten institutions, and beliefs about male teachers in early education. Outcomes from this study may benefit future male teachers intending to work with very young kids, and may help institutions to train future male kindergarten teachers".
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