The project will develop “early treatment programs” to aid educators in ending “misogyny.”
Researchers at Monash University simply launched a project aimed at tackling” dangerous masculinity” in high school schools, blaming celebrated American psychologist Jordan Peterson in part for promoting “harmful ideas” online.
The job goal is to create “early treatment programs” to assist high school teachers “identify and tackle the harms of virtual sexism and gender-based violence” in the classroom, according to a news release from the American university.
According to the university,” Toxic masculinity and cruel gender narratives are becoming more popular online and in American classrooms, threatening gender equality and promoting gender-based violence.”
In addition to” sexual harassment and other dangerous behaviors by boys in classrooms, frequently linked to narratives and ideologies clearly derived from blogosphere information,” according to education professor Stephanie Wescott in a report released.
The school cited “notorious manhood influencers or “manfluencers” like former University of Toronto doctor Jordan Peterson as perpetuating harmful ideologies that are influencing boys’ and young men’s behavior in classrooms.
Peterson, a well-known writer, public speaker, and counselor, rose to fame while promoting Canadian free speech rights.
The program’s direct scholar, Naomi Pfitzner said she, Wescott, and some plan to conduct studies over the next two years to build workshops that help teachers create” safer, more equal classrooms”.
Wescott wrote in the release that” we need effective methods for teachers to confront this dangerous masculinist ideology that reinforces violence-supporting ideas online, in the classroom, and beyond.”
” Toxic machismo” has been a popular theme in education in recent years.
In 2021, Rhode Island College offered a first-year lecture course called” The Rhetoric of Toxic Masculinity” that delved into what it described as a bad “outcome” in the female psyche, including often suppressing fear or grief and the idea that “violence signifies energy”, The College Fix reported.
Researchers also have linked” dangerous manhood” to climate change, college drinking culture, and people’s reluctance to use faces during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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