Alfabetización financiera:Hombres de cotona verde: Trayectorias formativas y profesionales de educadores chilenos de educación inicial

Abstract

Abstract: The workforce in initial education, in Chile and the world, is represented almost entirely by women. This phenomenon is explained by the high feminization of the profession, derived from the regime of sexual division of labor. The foregoing has led to low male participation in the educational level and the social stigmatization of those men who decide to practice this profession. To address this phenomenon, a qualitative investigation was carried out, which studied the training and professional trajectories of five male kindergarten educators, from different generations, to make their own experiences visible in their academic training and work in the classroom. The results of the study account for the various barriers faced by preschool teachers during their careers, especially when they enter children’s classroom. A man in charge of young children turns out abject, disputing gender norms, while the system tries to exclude and relocate him in his place “as a man”. Changing this reality implies not only motivating men to study the career and improve the working conditions of the profession, but also, it is necessary to modify the cultural constructions in the educational communities regarding the distribution of gender roles at work.