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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Australia Training 4,000 Teachers to Root Out Sexism in Preschoolers   
      
      
   Four thousand teachers in Australia are to be put through a training program   
   specially designed to help them root out sexism in pre-schoolers.   
      
   The regional government in Victoria is developing a course to help educators   
   spot children who “enact sexist values, beliefs and attitudes” from the   
   age of four.   
      
   According to The Australian, the new project will cost taxpayers $3.4million   
   AUS ($2.6million US).   
      
   A tender document released by state officials cites research showing that kids   
   are already operating within “gendered norms” at pre-school and need   
   “anti-bias” strategies to help educate them out of it.   
      
      
   The document said:   
      
   As young children learn about gender, they may also begin to enact sexist   
   values, beliefs and attitudes that may contribute to disrespect and gender   
   inequality.   
      
   Professional learning will ­increase the capacity of early childhood   
   educators to understand and implement respectful relationships and gender   
   equality into their program delivery.   
      
   It will build the capacity of ­educators to use reflective practice to   
   critically evaluate their work with children using anti-bias ­approaches   
   specifically regarding gender bias.   
      
   Sex and gender-focused education in Australia has become a highly contentious   
   issue in recent months.   
      
   As Heat Street previously reported, public school teachers in the neighboring   
   state of New South Wales were formally banned from teaching gender theory.   
      
   As a result of the ruling, there will no longer be lessons describing gender   
   as a “social construct”, or classes on the “infinite possibilities” of   
   gender, illustrated by a character called the Genderbread Man.   
      
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