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GENDER AND THE ROLE OF MEN IN CHILD CARE

Learning Outcomes

To achieve this unit a learner must:

1. Understand the importance of gender competence in all work with children and young people.
2. Be able to plan an intervention to use your understanding of gender issues to promote gender competence in a children's services setting.
3. Understand the gender related needs of a child or young person who has a distorted narrative about gender.
4. Be able to plan an intervention to meet the gender related needs of a child or young person who has a distorted narrative about gender.
5. Understand the concept of involved fathering and the importance of men in child care.
6. Be able to plan an intervention to promote involved fathering in a particular child care or educational setting.

Content and Structure

MODULE 1

Research and Theory About Gender, Role and Power

An introduction to aspects of gender, role and power

• The significance of gender, role and power in society
• Theories that are used to explain how gender roles are constructed

The debate about gender

• Neurobiological aspects
• Acknowledging and valuing 'female' and 'male' attributes
• Overcoming gender barriers in communication

Gender in the children services environment

• Gender composition and dynamics in children's services
• Gender and relationship in services for children and young people
• Developing strategies for promoting gender competence

MODULE 2

Children and gender

The development of gender identity in young children

• Key concepts about young children's gender development
• Children's cognitive shaping of their gender identity
• The influence of parents and peers
• Difficulties with gender identification

Young people and gender (puberty and beyond)

• Young people's perspectives about gender
• Developing strategies to engage young men
• Developing strategies to support troubled young women
• Mental health issues

Distorted role narratives about gender

• The influence of adverse family experience on gender narratives
• The perception of men by traumatised children
• Understanding and addressing distorted narratives

MODULE 3

Men in child care

Men as resources in children's lives

• Perception of men, as resources or 'risks'
• Identifying the benefits of men's involvement in children's services

The role of men in children's development

• The changing role of fathers
• Fathers and child development
• The concept of 'Involved fathering' (or Social Fatherhood)

Promoting positive male involvement in children's lives

• The role of 'involved fathering' in children's services
• Involving birth fathers
• Developing strategies for promoting 'involved fathering'
• Supporting and developing the role of male foster carers and adopters

Level: 4

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