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Using Professional Development Resources to Support the Inclusion of Gender Equity in Early Childhood Teaching and Curriculum Planning
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Smith, Kylie; Hurst, Bruce; Linden-Perlis, Disa – Gender and Education, 2023
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global health issue that affects significant proportions of women and girls. Despite research showing that children understand and perform stereotypical gender norms from as young as 3 years, addressing gender with young children is controversial. Programs that aim to teach gender fairness and respectful…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Sex Fairness, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Transformative Methods in Teacher Education about Gender-Based Violence
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Cahill, Helen; Dadvand, Babak – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
Teaching about gender-based violence involves dealing with a form of difficult knowledge and as such calls for substantial emotional, political and pedagogical labour on the part of educators. In this paper, we discuss how we have drawn on theoretical perspectives offered by Judith Butler, along with the Deleuzian notion of affective assemblages…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Sex, Violence, Transformative Learning
What Gendered Constructs about Mathematics Do Parents Have as Their Children Begin School in Australia?
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Glynn, Rachelle – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
This study investigated whether parents have gendered constructs related to mathematics. Parents and their kindergarten-aged children from three primary schools in Sydney were interviewed to see what their understandings of boys' and girls' interests and abilities in mathematics were. Parents completed the Who and Mathematics questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Kindergarten