42-Recruiting of Male FCS Educators with Rob Van Dyke

<p><strong>SHOWNOTES:</strong></p><p>•  So gender competence is a very fancy term for how do we understand how each gender fits within a current structure. So, what we're looking at is how does the two different genders really work within family consumer sciences? FCS was founded for females, and it's predominantly been a female-dominated field in the profession, and that's just because of by nature and history and just where we were in society at that time. The home and all of the things that went around it in the early 1900s, when we were formed, was really relegated to females, and then throughout the last century, it's been really re-emphasized that this is just for home, and especially with the name home economics, it really got that connotation that it was just for girls. It really wasn't until the 60s and 70s when feminism took over and Title 9 came about and specifically called out home economics for not having male students and being open to male students.  (1:54)</p><p>•    One of the big misconceptions about male FCS teachers is that we only came into the profession to teach Culinary Arts, that's our only way into this profession is because we just want to eat or we just want to show students how to cook. But that's not accurate. We have a lot of our male professionals that are coming in through FCS and really want to work with our students to learn how to be future EC educators or work with young children themselves or really just help with that parenting perspective, because that's something that they're super passionate about. We also have males that are coming in in the fashion and interior design side as well, so yes, the idea is that they're coming in to just teach culinary arts, but that's not correct, and that's one of the big stereotypes that male FCS teachers really fall into when they come in. (6:17)</p><p>•  So my doctorate is in Family and Consumer Sciences education through Texas Tech, and one of the big areas of emphasis and research that I was really drawn to was male inside this profes