To work as an Early Years Professional (EYPs) its essential to gain Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) which is a status given at degree level. EYPs are key to raising the quality of early years learning, care and development. They improve and provide the best outcomes for young children aged 0–5 years and require knowledge of each individual child and the nature of their childhoods. Defining childhood is difficult because there is no agreed universal definition (McDowell, 2010). Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development states that Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. Gender, ethnicity/culture and social class all have an impact on a child’s life especially in view of a child’s local and global experiences.
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Almost immediately children become gender aware. They start creating generalizations, which they apply to themselves as well as other people, slowly forming their personalities. (Martin and Ruble, 2004). The role of schools has become major in the lives of children younger than 5 years old (Sales, Spjeldnes, and Koeshe, 2010). Two fundamental parts of the early childhood environment influence perceptions of young children’s gender and gender stereotypes: classroom materials and the instructions of EYPs (Well and Hmm, 2005). Research has shown that Korean immigrant girls had the understanding that only males could be in the position of authority rather than females because a poster on the wall showed all male presidents (Lee, 2008). Families actively play a task in gender-role socialization by the ways in which they organize the surroundings for the child. They receive different toys to play …show more content…
There are a combination of varied ethnicities over London, leading to multi ethnic schools around the developed city where the children all mix together. This creates a positive atmosphere where children and EYPs are respectful of various backgrounds, the school ought to be proactive. In contrariety, many of the people in Pakistan are from the Asian Pakistani ethnicity itself. Speaking the common languages of, Urdu, Punjabi and Pashto and a small minority of approximately 6.28% from other ethnicities such as Afghans, Iranians and Indians.(The World Fact Book/cia.gov) There are also a minority of Christians, Hindus and Buddhist although they are from a different religion than the majority who follow Islam, they still adhere to the Pakistani
Almost immediately children become gender aware. They start creating generalizations, which they apply to themselves as well as other people, slowly forming their personalities. (Martin and Ruble, 2004). The role of schools has become major in the lives of children younger than 5 years old (Sales, Spjeldnes, and Koeshe, 2010). Two fundamental parts of the early childhood environment influence perceptions of young children’s gender and gender stereotypes: classroom materials and the instructions of EYPs (Well and Hmm, 2005). Research has shown that Korean immigrant girls had the understanding that only males could be in the position of authority rather than females because a poster on the wall showed all male presidents (Lee, 2008). Families actively play a task in gender-role socialization by the ways in which they organize the surroundings for the child. They receive different toys to play …show more content…
There are a combination of varied ethnicities over London, leading to multi ethnic schools around the developed city where the children all mix together. This creates a positive atmosphere where children and EYPs are respectful of various backgrounds, the school ought to be proactive. In contrariety, many of the people in Pakistan are from the Asian Pakistani ethnicity itself. Speaking the common languages of, Urdu, Punjabi and Pashto and a small minority of approximately 6.28% from other ethnicities such as Afghans, Iranians and Indians.(The World Fact Book/cia.gov) There are also a minority of Christians, Hindus and Buddhist although they are from a different religion than the majority who follow Islam, they still adhere to the Pakistani