Male Primary Teachers

This book explores the experience and identity of Australian male primary (elementary) school teachers and the way that society perceives, treats and positions them. It documents their experience of crossing-over into a career commonly regarded as 'women's work', and charts the advantages and disadvantages they face as a result of their maleness. The book concludes that their experience is likely to be complex, contradictory and problematic, and that their choice to cross-over into women's ...