Early Childhood Scenarios

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Scenario Seven identifies several issues demonstrated in an early childhood setting. The key aspects of the scenario, seven, gender stereotypical behaviours are shown by the children, also to be exposed to popular culture figures from an early age. National Union of Teachers [NUT] (2013), identifies that children's popular culture figures are in a precisely planned way marketed morally for one particular gender, either for a boy or a girl (p. 4). Above scenario, seven supports NUT where the children engaged in play with GI Joe’s and Barbie’s. To elaborate NUT (2013), stereotypical ideas are represented as boys, identified as muscular, hardcore action men, also girls are obedient and believe appearance to be essential to interactions children

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