I work with pre-school children and the other day I was telling one of the teachers that I assist about this blog/ project. She responded by saying that the school was extremely gendered and she wanted me to experience this. I was convinced that this was one of the school that were completely different from others. I thought that this school was a great outlet for self-expression for the children because they allowed the children to be what they wanted and rarely to never applied social constructions to their teachings. So we took the children outside to play after putting on their coats and the sight I saw blew me away. There were pale pink and lavender everywhere with a few spots of blues and greens. I'm quite sure you can picture who was wearing what. This is where I saw it becomes teachers vs parents. Even if teachers taught outside of constructionism, these ideas still get taught at home.
But when did this all start?
When was gender associated with color?
How can we end this
Can there be change?
1 comment:
I honestly don't think that this is something that can be changed. When a child is taught one thing at home it's hard for them to change that when they come to school. For example, if parents dress their daughters in pink all the time and their boys in blue all the time then the child may begin to like those colors and want to wear them quite often. It may be possible to change but I think it would be a difficult task.
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