Study of the Relationship and Intervention between Role-swapping Games and Young Children's Gender Perception

Abstract

The Guidelines for the Learning and Development of Children 3-6 state that “Early childhood development is a continuous, gradual process, and at the same time shows certain stage characteristics.” Young children's gender perception not only affects their personal growth and development, but also reflects and shapes society's gender concepts and cultural norms to a greater extent. By providing diverse and inclusive educational environments, young children can be helped to develop healthier gender perceptions. Therefore, exploratory role-play is important for the healthy physical and mental development of young children. Based on this, the study explores the effect of role-playing on young children's gender cognition, and analyzes the effect of role-playing on young children's gender cognitive ability with role-playing as the independent variable and young children's gender cognitive ability as the dependent variable. This study used literature, questionnaire survey, experimental research and other methods to evaluate and analyze the gender cognitive ability of the two groups of subject children before and after the game intervention using the Bem Gender Role Scale. Findings: after 4 weeks of game intervention, the gender cognitive ability of children in the experimental group was improved, consistent with the research hypothesis, then it shows that the young children's role swapping game plays a positive role in young children's gender cognitive ability. Games play a very important role in kindergarten's daily activities. Role-swapping games are novel and varied in content, which can have a strong attraction to young children and stimulate their interest. Therefore, the gender cognitive ability of young children before and after the game intervention is significantly reflected, which also indicates that the role exchange game has a positive effect on young children's gender cognition.