A new report on the failure of the education system. Too much education and not enough play. Seriously:
Children are being denied the chance to develop at school through
"imaginative play" because they spend so much time learning to read and
write, according to Government-funded research.
The other stunner they found is that boys and girls play in a diferent way:
The study found that children rated playing "castles"
as their favourite activity. But there were sharp differences between
the way boys played and the roles girls adopted, with early evidence of
sexual stereotyping. Boys liked to take on "action" roles such as
policemen, robbers or super heroes, while girls chose domestic,
"nurturing or maternal" roles.
The boys drew
pictures of fighting and depicted scenes where people’s heads were
chopped off while the girls’ art focused on princesses and "mums and
dads".
Quite shocking I tell you, quite shocking that the patriarchalism of our society should have been learnt so young.
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