Defensible Strategies
Strategies implemented in Benji’s class will need to provide positive gender role models as well as bridging the socioeconomic divide.
Benji can incorporate elements of Gherardi’s view of the narrative in gender identity formation. Gherardi views storytelling, role playing and critical reviews of one’s performance as central in forming identity (MacNaughton, 2000). Benji can arrange a class exercise in diversity by getting his class to tell stories about what the members of their families do for a living, any special skills they have, and accomplishments in order to show a range of diverse gender images that the children can absorb. Family involvement can even be included, with parents coming into class, or sending in
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Some books are:
• Tough Boris, by Mem Fox (about a tough boy who cries when his parrot dies)
• Boy, Can He Dance, by Eileen Spinelli (about a boy wants to be a dancer, not a chef like his father)
• Anna Banana and me, by Lenore Blegvad (about a fearless, brave young girl who befriends a timid shy boy)
• Christina Katerina and the Box, by Patricia Lee Gauch (about a young girl who finds many uses for a plain old box)
LAST: Invite families, parents and community members to speak to the class about what they do, and what it means to be a man/woman in their job, family, society and the world. It would be good to include role models of SES disadvantage as well, such as someone who came from a poorer family but received good education and worked toward their own success. (School newsletter are a good way to advertise for help in this area) These people could be:
• Male Nurse
• Female builder/carpenter
• Male and female dancers
• Female police officer
• Benji himself can even present to the class
Finish the lesson by discussing with the class what they now think about gender, and if and how their views have changed from before. Follow up by reinforcing the class rules and emphasise that we all need to work together to create a safe, happy, comfortable environment that is equal and just for
The book which I chose to share called Peter’s Chair written by Ezra Jack Keats. In the story, there is a boy named Peter whose parents just have a new born baby. Peter notices many things have changed around his house. His parents paint his old cradle, high chair and crib in pink and give them to his baby sister. Peter knows he needs to do something to prevent giving away of his favorite chair. Therefore, Peter decides to run always with all his favorite things and his dog, Willie. While Peter is being outsides, he sits on his chair and realizes that he is too big to the chair. He goes back home and tells his father that he would like to paint the chair in pink and give it to his little sister.
Time of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, yes. She was a heroine in a small, yet
The name of the book is Girl in Pieces. This is the perfect title for the book and sparked my interest when I heard it.
This novel is about a young boy’s life (the author). It starts of f him describing
The creation of an identity involves the child's understanding of the public disposition of the gender normalities, and the certain gender categories that
The main character of this book is Susan Caraway, but everyone knows her as Stargirl. Stargirl is about 16 years old. She is in 10th grade. Her hair is the color of sand and falls to her shoulders. A “sprinkle” of freckles crosses her nose. Mostly, she looked like a hundred other girls in school, except for two things. She didn’t wear makeup and her eyes were bigger than anyone else’s in the school. Also, she wore outrageous clothes. Normal for her was a long floor-brushing pioneer dress or skirt. Stargirl is definitely different. She’s a fun loving, free-spirited girl who no one had ever met before. She was the friendliest person in school. She loves all people, even people who don’t play for her school’s team. She doesn’t care what others think about her clothes or how she acts. The lesson that Stargirl learned was that you can’t change who you are. If you change for someone else, you will only make yourself miserable. She also learned that the people who really care about you will like you for who you are. The people who truly love you won’t ask you to change who you are.
Education is the most important in the critical rank for reducing gender inequalities. Women’s status socioeconomically has increased with the time change, but only because they have more means of entry to improved circumstances. Forms of gender inequality still exist in our society, even in the highly developed world. Sex-segregation
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl named Lily, who runs away from her abusive father with her housekeeper to the town that her late mother had once been to. There, she meets August and the Boatwright sisters, who live in a bright pink house and own a bee farm. These women teach her all about life through bees and the black Mary statue that is kept in their house. Lily comes from a rough situation, surrounded by negativity, but the sisters take her in and teach her what family and love is. Although living in a world where, for her, love is scarce, Lily is able to learn from the all negatives in her life, which then turn into positives, and Lily is a better person because of what she learned.
Wood, J. T. (2011). Gendered lives: Communication, gender, and culture. (9th ed ed., pp. 1-227). Boston,MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Members of this society must learn what the appropriate way for them to behave is and what to expect of themselves and others. Growing up, gender roles were set on me as I played with fire trucks and cars, and my sisters played with Barbie's. The types of movies we watched were different and the types of books we read were also different. It would be thought of as bizarre for me, a male, to cry during Titanic, or to read Cinderella.
Sadker, Myra, David Sadker, and Susan Klein. "The Issue of Gender in Elementary and Secondary Education." Review of Research in Education 17 (1991): 269. JSTOR. Web. 14 Mar. 2012.
Imagine living in a time when your only role is to get married, bear children, and take care of your house and husband. Adrienne Rich proposes an ulterior idea in her essay “Taking Women Students Seriously” Women should not only question the gender standards but discuss the gender norms that society has created; by discussion and attention to the matter we can eliminate it all together. Women are not represented in school curriculums enough and have a large misrepresentation in society. Rich draws attention to: What women have working against them in education, how women are perceived in the world by the media and advertising, and the gender roles that society pressures young children to contort to. By striking up a discussion
In the story, “Boys and Girls”, the narrator is not the only one coming to terms with their identity.
Bonomo, V. (2010). Gender matters in elementary education: Research-based strategies to meet the distinctive learning needs of boys and girls. Educational Horizons, 88(4), 257-264
Gender is the oldest form of categorization among society. The problem is not that gender is a differentiating category, but that the female gender is exploited through both benevolent and hostile sexism that creates unequal conditions. Given the biology of males and females, physically and neurologically, it is not farfetched to assume that it is natural for men and women to have tendencies associated with different social roles. Attitudes and behaviors shape how people define parental roles and family structure. Family structure is strongly correlated to class and gender inequality (Murray 171). Providing affordable educational opportunities and counseling and welfare programs which hold parents, especially fathers, to a higher accountability to their families will help to improve opportunities for impoverished families to escape the cycle of poverty and achieve upward mobility through increased social capital.