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A schema can be strengthened or changed as a result of experience:
e.g. I know that supermarkets change their shelves around at Christmas time.
So, children put together a schema of what is normal for each gender … and how to grow up into that gender.
But is this stereotyping?
What occurs at each stage?
PERSONAL, LEARNING AND THINKING SKILLS:
Ages & Stages:
learning objective:
To explore how schemas are used to form our gender identity.
team worker
SELF MANAGER
children identify as either a boy or a girl and identify others.
Gender identification: up to 3 years –
Gender realisation: 3 to 5 years –
Gender emergence: 6+ years –
LITERACY FOCUS:
To use paragraphs correctly.
boys realise they will become men and girls realise they will become women.
Learning Outcomes:
To be able to evaluate the gender schema theory.
To be able to describe how the gender schema theory works.
To be able to identify the three stages of the gender schema theory.
they accumulate more knowledge about their own gender than the opposite one and therefore form gender schemas.
Do Now
Remind me...
Provide typical examples for traditional
gender roles for men and women
e.g. women do the housework.
Nowhere is this more apparent than with toys …
So how do schemas apply to gender development?
Two Year 11 girls decided to try this out at “toys r us” a few years ago.
They tipped out a load of toys and let the 3-year olds loose …
A young boy and his father are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene. The boy is transported to the hospital, taken immediately into surgery... but the surgeon steps out of the operating room and says, "I can't operate on this boy - he is my son!"
The question: Who is the surgeon?
The answer:
The surgeon is the boy’s mother.
So what stage of gender schema theory are you at?
Not everyone is the same though …
Individual Differences:
Children who are stereotyped (“gender-schematised”) look for evidence to back up that prejudice while others are more flexible
The less usual gender occupations are done by people who are less gender-schematised (i.e. more flexible). E.g. male nurses, female truck drivers
Martin (1989)
Young children have a stereotype of boys liking boys’ toys and girls liking girls’ toys. Older children are more able to accept that boys sometimes play with girls’ toys and vice versa.
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Conclusion?
Young children have a stereotyped view of gender; older ones are more flexible.
- that’s
1 in 100 playgroup workers who is male
Evaluation
+ Of all these, schema theory seems to be the best explanation because it makes most sense (“ecologically valid”) and is the easiest to test.
- But it ignores genes & hormones.
- parents and those children who are not strongly gender-schematised.
True or false?
Gender stereotypes in the media