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Children's toy preferences revisited: Implications for early childhood education

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A study of contemporary kindergarten children's toy preferences indicated that they were as rigidly stereotyped by sex as those of children of previous decades. In view of social and legal changes and growing professional concerns about sex-role stereotyping, the authors present implications of sex-typed play and offer suggestions for combatting stereotyping and sex discrimination.

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  1. Georgia State University, USA

    Ramona S. Frasher & Joanne R. Nurss

  2. Emory University, USA

    Donna R. Brogan

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  1. Ramona S. Frasher
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Joanne R. Nurss is affiliated with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Georgia State University, and Donna R. Brogan is associated with the Department of Statistics and Biometry at Emory University.

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Frasher, R.S., Nurss, J.R. & Brogan, D.R. Children's toy preferences revisited: Implications for early childhood education. Child Youth Care Forum 9, 26–31 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01555034

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