so if somebody asked me why do I think it's important to talk to young people
about gender my answer is because I care about young people being safe and not
having violence in their lives because I want them to be happy
and so the way that that all connects to talking about gender is that I actually
think a lot of interpersonal conflict and inner conflict issues that some
like young people have just with themselves I think a lot of that
actually stems from feeling pressure to fit into certain stereotypes or gender
roles or acting certain things out in front of my friends so that my friends
will see that I'm a man or see that I'm a girl or I'm gonna make fun of this
girl I'm gonna call her a slut because I'm proving that I would never do that
right because I'm like the right kind of girl
if a parent approaches me and tells me that kids are too young to be learning
about gender I would tell them that regardless of whether we like it or not
kids are learning in very implicit and explicit ways about gender similar to
how they're learning about race socioeconomic status family structure
and other varying dimensions of diversity and you know to have conversations about
gender and to provide explicit learning opportunities about
gender gives us an opportunity to be intentional about our approach with kids
and to have them get on a path of developing a really solid form of
identity and comfort with oneself. So that's what I would say
I also think that when it comes to talking about things like gender identity and gender
expression depending on how young the students are a lot of them they might
not have the language for it but they do already know what we're talking about
right so I had a student who had never heard the word transgender before but
then I was talking about it in a class with them and he was like oh man maybe
that's me that might be what I am and it wasn't that I because I was talking
about what it means to be transgender it's not that all of a sudden he felt
totally differently about his gender identity than he had before I introduced
this word to him but now he had the language for it right like now he knows
there's actually a name for what I'm feeling and there's other people out there like me
a parent says learning about gender diversity conflicts with their values what would you say
or how would you respond my response would be it's not a matter of right and
wrong good versus bad it's simply who you are. Lessons and
activities about gender diversity are incorporated into our curriculum to
compliment larger themes such as respect kindness dignity and compassion our goal
is to empower all of our students throughout the year to help them grow
and succeed and part of achieving this goal is to teach them about diversity
these aren't new concepts in and of themselves to a lot of young people it's
just new language and language can be really powerful because if you know
there's a word for that that means I must not be the only person who has felt
this way right so I think that talking to young people about gender helps us
reduce things like interpersonal conflict but it also just makes young
people feel better about themselves
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