ERIC Number: ED627670
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 5
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Investing in Pre-Primary Education Workforce Development for Gender Equality. Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education
UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
Children begin learning about gender stereotypes as early as age two. The pre-primary education system does not always deliver on its potential to tackle and address harmful gender stereotypes while they are being absorbed by the youngest learners. All components of the pre-primary system have a role to play in breaking down these stereotypes. This includes the teaching workforce, who play a crucial role in determining how the education system contributes to gender equality and whose actions can influence children's learning experiences and their personal gendered views and behaviour. This brief highlights key strategies and considerations to ensure the pre-primary workforce can be prepared to stop gender stereotypes from being perpetuated, and ways they can create a learning environment that is gender-transformative. [For the full research report, "Tackling Gender Inequality from the Early Years: Strategies for Building a Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education System," see ED627660.]
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Learning Experience, Preservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Sex Fairness, Disproportionate Representation, Labor Force, Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Females, Women Administrators, Outcomes of Education, Preschool Children, Educational Practices
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti (Italy)
Identifiers - Location: Ecuador; Norway; South Africa; Vietnam; Zambia
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