MY 103.5 - 80's, 90's and Now » sweden http://my1035.com Thu, 23 May 2013 14:01:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Swedish Preschool Does Away With Boys and Girls http://my1035.com/swedish-preschool-does-away-with-boys-and-girls/ http://my1035.com/swedish-preschool-does-away-with-boys-and-girls/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:47:44 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=20317 The “Egalia” preschool in Stockholm, Sweden is taking that nation’s goal of breaking down gender roles in early education to the extreme.

Not only are boys encouraged to play with toy kitchens, and girls with building blocks, but the pronouns “him” and “her’ (or “han” and “hon” in Swedish) are banned from usage.  Instead, everyone is refereed to with the invented pronoun of “hen.”

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