@article{ref1,
title="Teaching, nurturing, and gender across three generations of rural early childhood teachers",
journal="Early childhood research quarterly",
year="1992",
author="Beach, Betty A.",
volume="7",
number="3",
pages="463-480",
abstract="This study explores nurturance as a gender-based quality in early childhood educators by comparing three generations of teachers. Using a semistructured interview, it asks 27 retired, practicing, and aspiring teachers their views of the cultural expectation that teachers of young children possess and display a maternal quality (specifically, nurturance) in their professional work. Despite a shared commitment to caring for young children as the core of their profession, each generation's experiences of nurturing varied due to two factors: (1) distinctive life and career histories, and (2) institutional changes in the nature of teaching.<p />",
language="",
issn="0885-2006",
doi="10.1016/0885-2006(92)90032-T",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0885-2006(92)90032-T"
}