How do children develop their sense of racial identity and gender?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
- Both racial and gender identity develops during the preschool years
- Race dissonance is the phenomenon in which minority children indicate preferences for majority values or people
- Ethnic identity emerges after racial identity since ethnicity is not as conspicuous as race
- Bilingual children are more aware of their ethnic identity
- Differences between the way boys and girls are treated begin at birth
- Gender is well-established by preschool years (ability to identify male or female)
- Gender development moves through gender identity, development of gender schemas, angender constancy
- There are many explanations for the process of gender development including
- Biological
- Psychoanalytic
- Social learning
- Cognitive approaches
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