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Teaching Gender Diversity In Preschool Classrooms, Nicole Marie Valhuerdi
Teaching Gender Diversity In Preschool Classrooms, Nicole Marie Valhuerdi
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As early as toddler years, children are absorbing information about gender stereotypes on what they should and should not be doing based solely off their sex and “have typically come to prefer activities defined by the culture as appropriate for their sex” (Wolter & Hannover, 2016, p.683). I thought it was important to start coming up with age appropriate ways to explain the concept of gender to children and teach preschool children about acceptance of differences in one another as well as themselves. For my project, I created a two-day lesson plan that was meant to be an introduction on …