The comparison of social and emotional learning of gifted children and undiagnosed children

The aim of the study is to investigate the comparison between the gender stereotypes of the children among the ages of 4 to 6 who receives education in the mainstream public school and the woodland school according to their preference of the plays and the toys. According to the sampling measure of the target population of the study, 35 students among the ages of 4 to 6 who receives education in the mainstream public school Beşiktaş/ İstanbul and 35 students among the ages of 4 to 6 who receives education in the woodland preschool in Beşiktaş/ İstanbul were included. In this study, "( Gender Stereotype Measure II ) " was put to use in order to measure the gender stereotypes of the children and the questionnaire form developed by the researcher was put to use in order to state "the play and the toy" preferences of the children. Furthermore, an observation form were put to use in order to observe the discourses and the acts of the children and sociodemographic information sheet received from the parents were put to use in this study.According to the findings; the children receive education in the mainstream public school are more stereotyped on gender characteristics. In the study, it is stated that the children who preferred same-gender friends have higher scores on male stereotypes and female stereotypes than those who preferred mixed-gender friends. It is found that participants' rate of preferring mixed-gender friends during the plays in the woodland preschool system is statistically higher than the participants who receives education in the mainstream publicschool. Key Words: Gender Stereotype, Play and Toys, Forest School