While the process ordinarily begins in the family, the schools' hidden curriculum further facilitates and encourages the construction of bodily differences between the genders and makes these physical differences appear and feel natural.
I have never considered the hidden curriculum and the roles school play in enforcing gender roles but looking back on my school experience it makes perfect sense
. For ex- ample, women take smaller steps than men, sit in closed positions (arms and legs crossed across the body), take up less physical space than men,
i feel that young girls are just mimicking behaviors and mechanisms they have observed from older women not that it is a biological difference
Eighty-two percent of all formal behaviors observed in these classrooms were done by girls, and only 18 percent by boys.
reminds of the idea of policing black bodies. women experience similar external regulation on their bodies but the implications are different.
We focused on the children's physicality- body movement, use of space, and the physi- cal contact among kids or between kids and teachers
how can this be objectively measured?
Gender relations depend on the successful gender presentation, moni- toring, and interpretation of bodies
you reenact behaviors that are favorable in social settings
reminds me of how difficult the activity we did on Tuesday's class was