Educators should be responsible to the children they teach because they have a big influence on students. Furthermore, Australia is a multicultural society in today’s world so it is significant for educators to respect, accept every child and treat them equally as everyone else. And many children think their teachers are the models in their life so it is important for teachers to understand issues of diversity and difference involving multiculturalism, poverty and gender stereotyping. This essay will be elaborate these three issues by the unit readings, Early Years Learning Framework and Australia curriculum.
Multiculturalism means people from different countries or cultural backgrounds living in a country apart from their origin. According …show more content…
Arguably, gender stereotypes exist from the moment of birth and children are taught which colours, toys, games and clothes are for boys and which are for girls (National union of teachers, 2013, p. 3). For example, many kids are taught that boys should wear blue and girls should wear pink. Therefore, educators have the responsibility to increase non-stereotypical materials, activities and resources and to reduce the materials that raises the traditional gender stereotypes in the classroom (MacNaughton, 2000, p. 19). MacNaughton (2000, p. 12-19) used an example to elaborate a teacher tried to support girls to play the blocks to see the power experience of girls. The reason the educator did this experiment was to show that not only boys could play the blocks but girls also could play it. Nevertheless, the educator was unsuccessful because she found boys were playing well because they were being creative, involved in what they were doing and cooperative with each other rather than girls (MacNauthton, 2000, p. 16). This shows that the curriculum and educators contribution to how children see themselves as gendered beings. Moreover, it is important for educators to give a voice to all children about gender and also to encourage children to reflect upon their own and other’s gender
Multiculturalism means people from different countries or cultural backgrounds living in a country apart from their origin. According …show more content…
Arguably, gender stereotypes exist from the moment of birth and children are taught which colours, toys, games and clothes are for boys and which are for girls (National union of teachers, 2013, p. 3). For example, many kids are taught that boys should wear blue and girls should wear pink. Therefore, educators have the responsibility to increase non-stereotypical materials, activities and resources and to reduce the materials that raises the traditional gender stereotypes in the classroom (MacNaughton, 2000, p. 19). MacNaughton (2000, p. 12-19) used an example to elaborate a teacher tried to support girls to play the blocks to see the power experience of girls. The reason the educator did this experiment was to show that not only boys could play the blocks but girls also could play it. Nevertheless, the educator was unsuccessful because she found boys were playing well because they were being creative, involved in what they were doing and cooperative with each other rather than girls (MacNauthton, 2000, p. 16). This shows that the curriculum and educators contribution to how children see themselves as gendered beings. Moreover, it is important for educators to give a voice to all children about gender and also to encourage children to reflect upon their own and other’s gender