Sex education

By Helen Bilton, Nursery World, 31 March 2004

How can early years practitioners treat boys and girls equally, yet focus on their different needs and strengths to foster learning? Helen Bilton considers the challenges

How can early years practitioners treat boys and girls equally, yet focus on their different needs and strengths to foster learning? Helen Bilton considers the challenges Men are from Mars, women are from Venus' (Gray, 1993). 'Men have obsessions; women have personalities' (Hornby, 2000). Men single-task, women multi-task. Are these differences between the sexes real or imagined? Whenever I talk to practitioners and ask if they see any differences between the...

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