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Gender Roles in Primary School
Week 3: Gender Diversity
Rebecca Walker, Elise Howard, Joanne Cooper, Alexandra Pulsford, Suzette Borg
IntroductionWhat is Sex?
“Sex Refers to a whether a person is considered female or male based on the type of body they have.” (Holmes)
What is Gender?“Gender describes the ideas and practices that constitute femininity and masculinity” (Holmes)
THEREFORE SEX AND GENDER ARE NOT THE SAME!
YouTube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VqsbvG40Ww
…That Gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a ‘one’ who is prior to this gender a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.
Seminar Outline
Introduction to GenderBirth and Early YearsEarly Stage 1Stage 1Video and Class discussionStage 2Stage 3Beyond Stage 3/ AdulthoodConclusion
Birth and Early YearsGender role standards and
stereotypesParents influence on children’s
gender- typed choicesParental behaviour toward girls
and boys
The rituals of gender
We are not born with a gender, that is culturally formed. There are people and institutions that police the way we act as a female or male, but that there should be a domain of agency or freedom of how we act as ourselves.
– J. Butler (2011)
Early Stage 1 (KINDERGARTEN)
Age 4 - 5
Decision making and personal choices: ◦belongings ◦uniform◦stereotypical colours
Pressure to belong
Stage 1 (YEAR 1 & 2)
• Children are aware of their perceived gender• This is dominated through society
constructing the idea of gender and the schooling environment being structured to separate the sexes.
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=srnaXW9ZgZc
Class discussionDo you think giving children toys that do
not adhere to their gender will effect their sexuality in the future?
Do you agree with parents who are letting their children decide their own gender?
Stage 2 (YEAR 3 & 4)
Age 7- 9Participation in team sportsSelf imageCompetitiveness and masculinityBoys Investment in Football
Culture – A.Keddie.
They wont let us play, unless you're going out with one of them. – E.Renold
Stage 3 (YEAR 5 & 6)
Pressure to conform to gender roles
Failure to meet gender stereotypes can result in bullying
Gender and sexuality become intertwined
Beyond Stage 3 & Adulthood
Importance of discussing gender roles and sexuality in Primary Education
Implementation of rules and activities into the school and classroom
Promotion of the idea of gender equality
Bickmore says-
Discussing sexuality and gender roles with elementary students is risky- but necessary- because it is very important to their personal and political lives
RefrencingBickmore, K. (1999). Why discuss sexuality in elementary
school?,.Queering Elementary Education. Geelong: Deakin University
Butler, J. (1990). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York, NY: Routledge
Butler, J. http://bigthink.com/videos/your-behaviour-creates-your-gender. (2011). Retrieved Tuesday 5th March 2013
Casper, V. Cuffaro, H. Schultz, S. Silin, J. Wickens, E. (1998). Towards a more thourough understanding of the world: Sexual orientation and early childhood education. Gender in Early Childhood. London: Routeledge.
Keddie, A. (2003). Boys Investments in Football Culture: Challenging Gendered and Homophobic Understandings. Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. University of Southern Queensland
McInnes, D. Couch, M. (2004). Quiet Please! There’s a Lasy on the Stage- Boys, Gender and Sexuality Non-conformity and Class. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Doi: 10.1080/0159630042000290937
Palotta- Chiarolli, M. (1995) Can I use the word ‘gay’?. Boys in Schools. Lane Cove: Finch Publishing.
ReferencingRenold, E. (2006). They wont let us play…unless you’re going out with
one of them: girls, boys and Butlers ‘Heterosexual Matrix’ in the primary years. British Journal of Sociology of Education. Doi: 10.1080/01425690600803111
Renold, E. (2007). Primary School “Studs”: (De)Constructing Young Boys Heterosexual Masculinities. Men and Masculinities. Doi: 10.1177/1097184X05277711
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072820144/student_viewo/chapteris