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- Shutts, Kristin, et al.
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Early preschool environments and gender : Effects of gender pedagogy in Sweden
- 2017
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In: Journal of experimental child psychology (Print). - : ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. - 0022-0965 .- 1096-0457. ; 162, s. 1-17
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- To test how early social environments affect children's consideration of gender, 3- to 6-year-old children (N = 80) enrolled in gender-neutral or typical preschool programs in the central district of a large Swedish city completed measures designed to assess their gender-based social preferences, stereotypes, and automatic encoding. Compared with children in typical preschools, a greater proportion of children in the gender-neutral school were interested in playing with unfamiliar other-gender children. In addition, children attending the gender-neutral preschool scored lower on a gender stereotyping measure than children attending typical preschools. Children at the gender-neutral school, however, were not less likely to automatically encode others' gender. The findings suggest that gender-neutral pedagogy has moderate effects on how children think and feel about people of different genders but might not affect children's tendency to spontaneously notice gender.
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