CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -By about age 6 or 7, children begin to understand that sex is permanent across situations and over time. Once they develop this understanding, they begin to act as members of their sex.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most children start understanding gender roles at around 2 to 3 years of age. By the time they reach 3 years old, most children prefer to play games which they think fit their gender. They may start choosing certain toys, colours and clothes that traditionally have been associated more with their assigned sex.

Detailed explanation-3: -Around 6 years of age, children develop gender constancy. This occurs once children are capable of recognizing that gender remains stable over time (i.e., gender stability) and it is consistent across situations despite changes in appearance (i.e., gender consistency).

Detailed explanation-4: -a child’s emerging sense of the permanence of being a boy or a girl, an understanding that occurs in a series of stages: gender identity, gender stability, and gender consistency.

Detailed explanation-5: -Stage 3 is known as gender constancy which occurs between 4-7 years of age. The child learns that peoples sex doesn’t change even with changes in appearance.