保育士志望男子学生の意識について

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With an increasing number of nursery teacher training schools, the enrollment of male students is also on the rise. Male students are now considered to have tendencies or problems that were never seen before. We studied the awareness of male students wanting to become nursery teachers by examining their written self-introductions, self-portraits and answers to questionnaires. The subjects were first-graders at nursery teacher training schools. We obtained written self-introductions and self-portraits from 103 male students and 238 female students, as well as answers to an awareness questionnaire from 107 male students and 236 female students. As a result, the self-introductions written by male students reflected a tendency of trying to show themselves in the best possible light as a person rather than consider their own position as a teacher in society. Meanwhile, their self-portraits indicated that they tend to depict themselves focusing more on their own selfimage than their wish to make people understand themselves. Their answers to the awareness questionnaire showed no significant gender gap in knowledge about children, but there were some differences in experience and attitudes; for example, male students tend to have distorted self-confidence. We consider it important for teachers to advise their students on the premises that there are such differences in awareness between male and female students.