In the 21st century, member states of the United Nations (UN) have reached a consensus that females and males should have equal opportunities where healthcare and education are offered to both genders and gender equality is being advocated in many parts of the world (UN Women, 2013). Teacher’s perception of gender stereotype play affects their interaction with children as the way they advocate gender equality and avoid gender stereotypes among children differs. Gender stereotypes often comes from human’s perspective of how each gender is supposed to behave and play and mean the “preconceived ideas whereby males and females are arbitrarily assigned characteristics and roles determined and limited by their sex.” (Bohann, 2011, pg 3).
Gender stereotyped play could be seen from the expected behaviour of each gender or the categorization of toys as they are being categorized for boys and girls when it can be categorized through age or interest. Play would be defined as “the level of symbolic …show more content…
Therefore, this type of gender stereotyped play might affect children’s social development as it leads to peer victimization. There are previous research that hypothesize, aggression do happen more frequently during same gender play, especially boys as they are vying with each other to gain control (Rosvall, 2011) and Andrews, Hanish, Fabes, & Martin (2014) research do expect similar findings. Due to the different interaction styles of both genders, it would lead to having conflict with each other (Fabes et al., 2004). Thus, they hypothesize that other gender play (dyadic play) will lead to peer victimization. However, for mixed-gender play, they hypothesize that it would not lead to peer victimization as the children would be more conscious and less aggressive (for boys) when playing with mixed
Gender stereotyped play could be seen from the expected behaviour of each gender or the categorization of toys as they are being categorized for boys and girls when it can be categorized through age or interest. Play would be defined as “the level of symbolic …show more content…
Therefore, this type of gender stereotyped play might affect children’s social development as it leads to peer victimization. There are previous research that hypothesize, aggression do happen more frequently during same gender play, especially boys as they are vying with each other to gain control (Rosvall, 2011) and Andrews, Hanish, Fabes, & Martin (2014) research do expect similar findings. Due to the different interaction styles of both genders, it would lead to having conflict with each other (Fabes et al., 2004). Thus, they hypothesize that other gender play (dyadic play) will lead to peer victimization. However, for mixed-gender play, they hypothesize that it would not lead to peer victimization as the children would be more conscious and less aggressive (for boys) when playing with mixed