Data for: Exploring the Impact of Education-Based Experiences on Cisgender Children’s Gender through Social Learning Theory

<h3>Project Overview</h3>

<p> The aim of this project was to explore any potential schooling influences on children's relationship with gender in order to identify key areas that need addressing through policy and curriculum changes to stop children from observing, learning or internalizing hegemonic gender stereotypes and remove any associated limitations of these stereotypes in later life. Participants recruited were cisgendered to tackle the gap in the research, in that many gender related research within childhood relate to transgender children and those outside the binary. Alongside this, it is important to highlight the gender divide that takes place within school systems (as found within our previous research, Dodgers, Cordoba & Coe., 2023) in the ways that boys can be prioritized within sporting scenarios and unnecessarily divided from girls. The interviews discussed the participants’ understanding of gender as a construct and their experiences, their schooling experiences around expression or expectations as well as sporting experiences of treatment or opportunities. </p>

<p> Research Aims:</p>
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<li> Explore young people’s relationship with their own gender identity/expression and other gender expressions; </li>
<li> Identify how educational environments influence children’s gender relationship; and </li>
<li> Consider the impact of sporting experiences on how children view other genders. </li>
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<p> Research Questions:</p>
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<li> How do the participants feel about their own gender and people of other genders? </li>
<li> How have educational environments influenced their relationship with gender? </li>
<li> What impact does sporting experiences have on how children view other genders? </li>
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