Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

More men : Swedish arguments over four decades about 'missing men' in ece and care / Inga Wernersson -- Male role models in education (0-8) : an English perspective / Simon Brownhill -- Children's interpretive reproduction of gender conscious didactic agendas in a Swedish pre-school / Annica L¿fdahl and Maria Hjalmarsson -- The ballad of the big manly guy : male and female teachers construct the gendered careworker in US early education contexts / Christine Mallozzi and Sally Campbell Galman -- Big and muscular boys : teaching of normality in pre-school through food and eating / Anette Hellmann -- Gender in pre-school and child-centred ideologies / Vina Adriany -- Teachers' beliefs, norms and values of gender equality in pre-schools / Ingrid Granbom -- Pioneers, professionals, playmates, protectors, "poofs" and "paedos" : Swedish male pre-school teachers' construction of their identities / Jo Warin -- Being professional : norms relating to male pre-school teachers in Japanese kindergartens and nurseries / Anette Hellman, Chie Nakazawa and Kiyomi Kuramochi -- Gendered ideals and sports coaching : reflections on the male as "the centre" of sports in relation to child sports / Karin Grahn.