The Moment When the Gender Germinates:Fixing the Development of Gender Identity in Chinese Kindergartens
Gender identity,which is the personal sense of an individual's own gender,not based on their own sex,and their sense of be-longing to a gender group,is worthy of significant value for research.However,both the Child Development Psychology and research on the socialization of gender have not been able to elucidate social mechanisms for the acquisition of gender identity.Based on the materials collected by observations and social experiments from 8 kindergartens in 4 provinces,this paper identifies three ways of fixing gender i-dentity at the level of kindergarten.One way is that children's mistaken sense of belonging to a gender group is corrected often through e-motional punishment.Another is the creation of stereotypes that embody different genders for children to identify and memorize as their daily learning.A further way is to stage competition between groups that hold different gender identities to encourage children to acquire the sense of gender-based preferences.The paper argues that kindergartens'education,daily care and routines,as well as the negative e-motions imposed critically influence the formation of children's gender identity.The development of gender identity is,however,not a one-way process and children often respond in their own way.
socialization of gendergender identitykindergartengendered embodiment
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