Young Children's Perspectives on Teacher Gender

Part 1: Researching Young Children's Perspectives on Their Teachers' Gender in a Global Con-text 1. Introduction 2. A cross-cultural theoretical framework for understanding children's perspectives of gender in early childhood education and care (ECEC) across countries 3. Methodology for an international collaborative project Part 2: Case Studies across the Global South and North 4. Chinese young children's perspectives on gender and their teachers in a high-socio-economic-status kindergarten 5. "He Plays, and She Teaches": Perspectives of Brazilian children on their teachers in ECEC 6. Challenges and Opportunities: The politics of gender in South African Early Child-hood Education and Care 7. "One paints the caravan, and one stays out of the caravan": Children's perspectives of their educators' gender in an Australian ECEC service 8. "She is a medic. She was a medic in the army": Children's silence on their teachers' gender in an Israeli forest kindergarten 9. How do young Turkish children perceive the gender of their teachers? A case study 10. Exploring the (co)construction of non-binary gender patterns: the Norwegian case 11. "She is pretty and sparkly; he is a good teacher" Is it the teacher or their gender that counts? England case study 12. "Because He's My Second Favorite Teacher": A New York City (NYC) Case Study Exploring Children's Perceptions of Their Teachers' Gender Part 3: Findings, Implications, and Future Directions 13. Cross Country Analysis: How contexts shape children's perspectives of their male and female educators 14. Insights and the importance of (researching) children's perspectives on gender