Browsing by Author "Forstén, Elin"
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Forstén, Elin (2018)The purpose of this study is to get an insight into preschool children's thoughts on gender roles. The topic of gender roles is highly relevant in todays' society and an issue that has been brought into focus in early childhood education as well and my aim is to explore how the preschool children of today think about gender roles. Research in the field of early childhood education related to gender roles is being done more and more but it is still a relatively undiscovered field and very few studies have the children's perspective in focus. This study is made up of individual, qualitative interviews and I have interviewed 26 children in total in six separate interviews. Outside of the interviews I have collected material through the children choosing toys from a toy magazine. The interviews started with a discussion about the children's choices of toys and followed with a conversation about different issues regarding the topic of gender roles. One of the most central findings of the study is that children to a certain extent had noticed differences between boys and girls while regarding some other areas did not think there is any difference between the two genders at all. Furthermore it is interesting to notice that even though children pointed out certain differences between boys and girls they were in general very accepting of different types of genderbending and norm breaking tendencies.
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