"What are the ways in which gender stereotyping occurs in schools? What can be done to minimize such stereotyping?"
Title: "What are the ways in which gender stereotyping occurs in schools? What can be done to minimize such stereotyping?"
Category: /Society & Culture/Education
Details: Words: 2056 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
"What are the ways in which gender stereotyping occurs in schools? What can be done to minimize such stereotyping?"
Category: /Society & Culture/Education
Details: Words: 2056 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gender stereotyping in schools; does it exist? According to Sarah Delamont (1980), "It is in the classroom and the playground that girls learn to be girls and boys learn to be boys" (p2 of editor's intro.). This is in relation to gender stereotyping in schools; roles that have been assigned to males and females, and are constrained by society's expectations of them. This essay will look at the various types of gender differences and stereotyping and …showed first 75 words of 2056 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2056 total…stereotypes it is important to adjust the environment in which the child is in. In schools, genders should not be completely separated in any activities. Allowing genders to be separated in lines, sports, and class work is only encouraging and enforcing gender differentiation and encouraging the gender stereotypes already put forward by society. By involving both genders in all activities, the differences between them will not be emphasised as much and communicated towards the children.