Correct gender socializing in school avoids the fabrication of divisions among girls and boys

• Author: Marta Topçiu
• Position: University 'A.Xhuvani' Elbasan
• Pages: 123-130

ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 2

Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania July 2015

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Correct gender socializing in school avoids the fabrication of divisions

among girls and boys

Dr. Marta Topçiu

University “A.Xhuvani” Elbasan

Abstract

e paradigm of gender based role socializing is supported by the postulate: men and women

learn gender based attitudes and behaviours of the environment which surrounds them. Gender

based socializing serves to teach individuals the dierence between sexes, as well as, the hierarchy

between them. Education is an extremely important instrument whereby social change can be

achieved. School should take the indispensable responsibility to clearly demonstrate that both

genders possess equal values in the present society. It is time for the education in schools to

seriously take in consideration issues concerning gender based education with a view to prevent

the violation of women’s and girls’ rights and integrity in both, private and public environments.

It is time for the education in schools to lend a helping hand in addressing pupils toward non-

traditional stereotypes, yet in development. is education should similarly focus on the natural

dierence between both genders and the equity between them. School remains one of the social

institutions that should set up intentional gender education. Especially the secondary education

cycle which coincides with the “culminating age” of the youth development should identify the

latter one as a necessity. To avoid the creation of a masculine subjectivity, radically dierent

from the feminine one, school education ought to be led by a correct, armative, representative,

integrative curriculum that includes experiences, necessities and interests of girls and boys.

Keywords: Gender based socializing, gender based equity, education, and gender based stereotypes.

Introduction

Socializing, according to the sociologist Muriel Darmon, constitutes the entirety of the

processes whereby the individual himself/herself is built (is educated, is shaped, is formed,

is fabricated, and is elaborated) by both, the local and global society where he/she lives.

To him/her this is a process during which the individual provides (learns, appropriates,

integrates) ways of doing, thinking, and being in accordance with the surrounding

environment. Socializing is conceived as a programming process in order to accomplish

certain duties within a complex system. Roles represent the way the individual contributes

within this system. e same thing happens with the social and gender based roles, which

has a pivotal importance for the personal identity. Gender is seen as a social and dynamic

structure, originating from the cultural and subjective indicators, which change in time

and space. e idea that gender is a “social building” may seem equally abstract and

arbitrary. Since its inception, gender based sociology was focused on the ways whereby

gender is taught and transmitted from a generation to another. ese ways, according to

Emile Durkheim, exercise an external impact on the individual. Gender based studies have

put in their foundations the analysis of socializing. roughout gender based socializing