288 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book will explore the ways in which young children perceive themselves and are viewed by others in terms of their gendered identities as individuals and as members of society. It considers research from a variety of perspectives in the context of home/family and school. Topics covered include: * the construction of gender from the time the child is conceived * the politics of category... Read more
1 Blurring the edges Part I Family, community and society 2 Constructing the gendered infant 3 Boys and girls with disabilities: maternal expectations of gender behaviour and independence 4 The body, young children and popular culture 5 Toward a most thorough understanding of the world: sexual orientation and early childhood education 6 Gendered settings and human rights in early childhood Part II Aspects of gender in school contexts 7 Gender equity policies and early childhood education 8 The politics of category membership in early childhood settings 9 Improving our gender equity ‘tools’: a case for discourse analysis 10 The serious and playful work of gender: talk and social order in a preschool classroom 11 Gendermaps 12 ‘The pink’s run out!’ The place of artmaking in young children’s construction of the gendered self 13 Making sense of gender issues in mathematics and technology
Biography
Nicola Yelland is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Early Childhood at Queensland University of Technology.
