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 womens 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 womens work such as primary teaching often yields a unique and complex mixture of experiences that are poorly...