Men in the ‘Profession of Women’: Views, Struggles, and Inspirations

Abstract

This study aims to realize the views, struggles and inspirations of male pre-service teachers. In doing so, qualitative-descriptive design was chosen with the utilization of a semi-structured interview. The respondents were chosen via purposive sampling, which led to eight (8) participants in total. It was then found out that they perceive the tasks in the profession to be arduous and loaded, while some added that they also view these to be meaningful and contributory to the society. While the majority further suggested that the teaching profession is for the long-term, half of them based their decisions on how they assess themselves in terms of capabilities in handling such tasks. The findings also exposed that more than half of them struggled on the sudden shift of the learning platform. Quantity of tasks and public speaking also emerged as struggles they had, but only one gender-specific struggle came out from results which is stereotyping the profession by the surrounding people. Lastly, family, positive classroom environment, dreams and model came out to be the inspirations of these teacher candidates.