TEACHING GENDER EQUALITY TO KIDS: A SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONIST APPROACH TO AN INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FEAST ORGANIZED BY A BAHÁ’Í COUPLE IN ANKARA

This study is based on a four-hour participant observation during a ‘National Sovereignty and Children’s Feast’ celebration organized by a Bahá’í couple in Ankara, Turkey on April 23, 2011 for their students and the children living in the same residence site as they do. Multicultural children attended the celebration where activities supporting gender equality were performed. This study intends to analyze these activities within the framework of Symbolic Interactionism of Blumer (1969).