TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1992//
TI  - Teaching, nurturing, and gender across three generations of rural early childhood teachers
JO  - Early childhood research quarterly
A1  - Beach, Betty A.
SP  - 463
EP  - 480
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
LA  - 
SN  - 0885-2006
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0885-2006(92)90032-T
ID  - ref1
ER  -