Boys doing the dishes, girls playing footy and games involving kids with two mums: New plan to 'stamp out gender stereotypes' at schools
- Victoria Government released new education curriculum for state schools
- The curriculum aims to stamp out gender stereotypes from an early age
- It also teaches the dangers of pornography and importance of diversity
Schoolchildren as young as four will be shown pictures of boys doing the dishes and girls playing footy in a bid to stamp out gender stereotypes.
Year one and two students will play games teaching that some kids have two mums or two dads and teens will be taught the meaning of terms like pansexual and cisgender.
The changes come as part of a newly released education curriculum by the Victorian Government, which will be made a mandatory subject in all state primary and secondary schools at the start of 2017.
The curriculum, named 'Respectful Relationships', is a $21.8 million initiative by the state government to eradicate the 'vicious cycle of family violence'.
New education curriculum in Victoria will teach primary school students that some kids have two mums or dads (stock image)
The teaching resources encourage children from an early age to challenge gender stereotypes
The age-appropriate resources were developed by world-leading experts from Deakin University and the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.
Children will be taught from an early age the importance of challenging male and female-based labels in the playground and classroom.
Secondary students will be taught about the dangers of pornography and its relationship with 'attitudes supporting violence against women.'
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Schoolchildren as young as four years old will be shown pictures of boys doing the dishes and girls playing footy in a bid to stamp out gender stereotypes (stock image)
Students in their final year of high school will be educated in 'gender literacy', with lessons about identities including: cisgender, transgender, transman, transwoman and gender fluid.
Those students will also be taught the difference between gender and sexuality, and schooled on sexuality preferences including heterosexual, bisexual, asexual and pansexual.
Education Minister James Merlino said the curriculum was based on extensive research and evidence showing that education was 'key' to ending the 'vicious cycle of family violence.'
'This is about teaching our kids to treat everyone with respect and dignity so we can start the cultural change we need in our society to end the scourge of family violence,' he said.
According to a media release, the focus of the subject in primary years is on treating everyone with respect and dignity, with the secondary years subject building on this by teaching students about the relationship between gender and power.
Education Minister James Merlino said the curriculum was 'key' to ending the 'vicious cycle of family violence'
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