The Vicious Circle of Stereotypes: Teachers’ Awareness of and Responses to Students’ Gender-Stereotypical Behaviour: PlosOne

Data of the project on identifing: (i) teachers' awareness of stereotypical behaviours of girls and boys at school, (ii) teachers' awareness of possible causes of this behaviors, (iii) teachers responses to these behaviours, including actions that deepens gender stereotypes at school and (iv) teachers' sensitivity to the gender-polarised content of school textbooks. The study was conducted on the basis of a mixed methods approach (Stromquist, 2007) combining lesson observation and semi structured interviews with teachers.