MOREH ACADEMY INC.

SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

AWARENESS OF GENDER SENSITIVITY AMONG THE GRADE 12 STUDENTS

IN MOREH ACADEMY INC.

A Research to

Mr. Marc Julius Antonio

Researchers:

Abas, Kyla A.

Abenir, Raven Kyle S.

Bonagua, Kate Andrei Q.

Demonteverde, Jean Marie G.

Dauplo, Mickaella B.

Daro, Rawdah A.

Galos, Darlene S.

Gemarino, Nikki Andrea R.

Olores, Sherran Mathew Lluke V.

Pagsisihan, Carlos Joaquin J.

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 1

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

Saud, Narsudin M.

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Most adult gender equality awareness and psychological problems stem from

childhood, especially at school age (Rutter et al., 2006; Solbes-Canales et al., 2020).

School age refers to the period of development from primary school to adolescence,

usually between 6 and 12 years of age (Cui, 2013). At this stage, children are in a
critical development period of individual gender equality awareness, self-esteem, and

subjective well-being. Solbes-Canales et al. (2020) found gender stereotypes in children

aged 4–9 years old and significant differences in different gender groups. Trautner et al.
(2005) found that individual gender stereotypes appeared at the age of five, reached a
peak of rigidity at 7 or 8 years of age, and then gradually gained flexibility as children’s
gender cognition and understanding deepened. Zhang’s (2004) research on children
aged 3–9 years old found that 4–5 years old and 7–8 years old were two key transitional
periods for children’s self-esteem development. Casas and González-Carrasco’s (2019)
analysis of children aged 7–14 in 15 countries found that in most countries, 10 years old
was the transitional period for children’s subjective well-being. Moreover, significant
differences in self-esteem and subjective well-being among school-age children of
different genders have been found (Zhang, 2004, 2012; Savoye et al., 2015). Studies
point out that higher gender equality, self-esteem, and subjective well-being can
improve the mental health and life satisfaction of school-age children (Zhang, 2012;
Looze et al., 2018). Overall, school age is a critical development period for gender
equality awareness, self-esteem, and the subjective well-being among children. Positive
gender equality awareness, self-esteem, and subjective well-being can have a positive
impact on school-age children, and there are significant differences in gender equality
awareness, self-esteem, and subjective well-being among children of different genders

Gender relations are present in all institutions, and gender sensitivity especially

manifests in recognizing privilege and discrimination around gender; women are

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 2

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

typically perceived as being at a disadvantage in society. Gender sensitivity is the

process by which people become aware of how gender influences how they treat others

in life. Gender sensitivity training is used to teach people, usually employees, how to be

more aware of and sensitive to gender in their lives or workplaces. They are becoming

more common in the united states especially in sectors of the service industry like

healthcare and education.

Theoretical Framework

Gender sensitivity in early youth schooling is ready seeing (kohdata) kids as

people. Not making assumptions approximately the kids’s abilities, skills, personalities

or pursuits primarily based totally on their gender is likewise a huge a part of this

technique. Gender sensitivity demanding situations and deconstructs socially common

attitudes and movement patterns. The idea at the back of this technique is to make

assumptions associated with gender visible, as the ones assumptions have an effect on

the people, who paintings with youngsters. (Naisasialiitto Unioni ry n.d.b, p. four.) Like

Yli-Tapiola says (2012, p. 17), it's far essential for educators to invite from themselves,

do they understand which gender-primarily based totally assumptions they make.

Furthermore, it's also critical to peer what sorts of assumptions the educators are

passing directly to kids.

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 3

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

Even though speakme approximately the troubles associated with gender can

reason uncomfortable feelings and situations, the dialogue could be very a whole lot

needed.Children’s organic intercourse courses and directs adults’ movements and the

method of making selections for the kid. This is how gender, or as a minimum the

illustration of gender, gives a body to a infant’s life. The more youthful the kid is, the

larger the adult’s have an effect on is on building the body for the kid. Thus, adults can

manage the youngsters’s approaches of being. (Alasuutari 2016, p. 122.)One size of

gender sensitivity is to have a take a observe its effect at the kids’s improvement.

Making certain that the educators communicate approximately problems associated

with equality can bring about moral growth, which helps kids’s bodily, emotional, social

and cognitive improvement. (Yli-Tapiola 2012, pp. 19-20.) It is likewise critical to speak

about and contemplate problems associated with gender in early youth training because

it helps kids’s improvement in becoming respectful and tolerant individuals (Yli-Tapiola

2012, p.19). Gender sensitivity is likewise a part of moral schooling and it could be the

premise for accepting unique sorts of characteristics in individuals. (Ylitapio-Mäntylä

2012, p. 57; Huuska & Karvinen 2012, p. 43.)

Gender norms may be visible in kids’s toys, video games and plays, and clothing.

This can result in boys and women experiencing the fact differently, even supposing

they had been withinside the same bodily surroundings (Teräs 2010, p.24). When

growing a extra gender touchy environment, the studying substances furnished to kids

ought to take gender sensitivity into account (Jääskeläinen, Hautakorpi, Onwen-Huma,

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 4

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

Niittymäki, Pirttijärvi, Lempinen, and Kajander, 2015 p.21). In addition to taking note of

the getting to know substances furnished, the surroundings as an entire must be gender

touchy. (Naisasialiitto unioni ry n.d.b,p.28.) Everyone has an effect on a community,

however it's miles the manager’s duty to make sure that the paintings community’s

protocols and operational tradition are being developed and assessed (Finnish National

Agency of Education 2016 p. 28)

Demographic profile of
respondents:

.Gender1.1sensitivity
Age isn't similar to gender-impartial
Survey To know
Questionnaire technique, the of the purpose
because
Awareness of Gender
1.2 Sex Data Gathering
isn't always to make gender invisible, however to provide every infantofaStudents
Sensitivity hazard to be
1.3 Strand through the seminar
Data
visible (kohdattu) as an individual andInterpretation
now no longer as a boy or a girl. (Yli-Tapiola
Data Analysis
2012, pp.
How do19-20.) In early youth training, a gender-impartial technique might imply that
the reapondents
perceive the Awareness of
gender, or its exclusive meanings, could be ignored. Thus, gender-impartial technique
gender sensitivity in terms
of:
does now no longer assure same early formative years education. (Naisasialiitto Unioni
2.1 Body Movement
ry n.d.b, p. 24) Every baby’s wellbeing, which incorporates ensuring that every toddler
2.2 Emotional
feels cushty in an afternoon care setting, is as much as the adults’ moves (Yli-Tapiola
2.3 Social
2012, p. 2.4
19).Cognitive
Development

Conceptual Framework

Input Process Output

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 5

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

Figure 1. Research Paradigm

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 6

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

Statement of the Problem

This study aims to determine the Awareness of Gender Sensitivity among the
Students in Moreh Academy.

1. What is the demographic profile of the student-respondents in terms of?

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 7

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

1.1 Age;

1.2 Sex

1.3 Strand

2. how do respondents perceive the gender awareness in terms of:

2.1 Body Movement

2.2 Emotional

2.3 Social

2.4 Cognitive Development

3. Is there any Significant relationship to the respondents demographic profile to the

Awareness of gender sensitivity?

4. Based on the result of this study, what action plan can be utilized to maintain gender

sensitivity?

Hypothesis

Ho.There is no Significant Relationship between the Awareness of Gender

Sensitivity and the students in Moreh Academy inc.

Ha.There is a significant relationship between the Awareness of Gender

Sensitivity and the students in Moreh Academy Inc.

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 8

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

Significance of the Study

The findings of this research will be extended to share more knowledge and give

awareness to everybody about the perception of gender sensitivity.

Students. This study may help gender equality in education as their attitudes and

instructional practices are known to influence students motivation and performance

Teachers. This study reflects their gender stereotypes. Moreover, they require

knowledge about gender differences in education and about teaching methods to foster

the motivation of all students regardless of their gender.

Parents. This study would give awareness among the parents of students who are

building children's resilience to rigid stereotypes in their gender.

Future Researchers. This will be the help to the future researchers to become a

fundamental of their studies as a reference and to increase their learning skills about

gender sensitivity.

Scope and Delimitation

The sample size of this study is limited to 288 Grade 12 students of Moreh

Academy during the first semester of the Academic Year 2022-2023. This research

focuses on acquiring different perceptions of Gender sensitivity among students. The

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 9

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

researcher’s main objective is to gather information and data from the respondents

about their various insights into gender sensitivity.

Definition of Terms

Deemed - Regard or consider in a specified way.

Discrimination - Is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on

the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to

belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, religion,

disability, or sexual orientation, as well other categories.

Disparities - A noticeable and usually significant difference of dissimilarity.

Fared - Perform in a specified way in a particular situation or over a particular

period of time.

Foster - To take care of a child as if it were your own, usually for a limited time,

without being the child’s legal parent.

Panasexual/Omnisexual - Terms used to describe people who have romantic,

sexual, or affection desire for people of all genders and sexes.

Prejudice - An unjustified negative opinion or bias that was formed before having

enough information. A specific instance of such a conclusion or opinion. hostile

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 10

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

attitude that is unfounded and directed at a person, a race, a group, or any of

their alleged characteristics.

Sensitivity - A person’s feelings which might be easily offended or

hurt;sensibilities.

Stereotypes - In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about

particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about

every person of a particular group.

CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES AND LITERATURE

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 11

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

This chapter presents and discusses the principles, concepts, and othersignificant

information gathered from the related literature written by foreign and localauthors.

Moreover, this chapter also includes similarities and differences in the findingsof several

studies that have a direct and indirect bearing on this study. This reviewensures that

there is no duplication of other studies already conducted.

Related Literature

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 12

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 13

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 14

RESEARCH 2
 MOREH ACADEMY INC.
SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EXCELLENCE

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | PRACTICAL 15

RESEARCH 2