A positive sense of self not only safeguards children but also supports lifelong emotional health and wellbeing.
Course content:
• How gender stereotyping impacts children’s developing sense of self and others.
• The effects on aspiration and attainment.
• The links with inequality, prejudice and poor mental health.
• Strategies to create a fully inclusive environment that challenges stereotyping, celebrates difference and encourages all children to be themselves.
Links to the following Dimensions of the Bristol Standard:
- D1 Values and Aims
- D2 Relationships and Interactions
- D3 Approaches to Play and Development
- D4 Physical Environment
- D5 Play Experiences
- D6 Observation, planning and Record Keeping
- D7 Staffing, Leadership and Management
- D8 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- D9 Partnership with Parents and the Wider Community
- D10 Monitoring and Evaluation.
