Authors

Vincent Exiga¹;  ¹ Université de Genève, Switzerland

Discussion

In 2022, for the Defender of the Fatherland Day in a school of Belgorod, the boys demonstrated their strength in a relay race while the girls watched from their seats. Although still out of breath, they then participated to the “Choose your military career” workshop. For International Women’s Day 2023, in a school of Belovo, the girls arrived late on a stage where the boys were waiting while reciting “Girls are so coquettish! They want to dazzle us”. After their eagerly awaited arrival, girls competed in the “Sweep, Cook, Wash” game.

The aim of this article is to analyse the methods of learning and transmitting gender norms in schools through the observation of the activities deployed during the two gender holidays (23^rd February - 8^th March) by a mixed method. The results of a netnography (Caliandro 2014) of the MAAM site, a social network of Russian teachers, based on 30,000 pedagogical programmes obtained by web scraping, will be deepened by a qualitative analysis of 60 educational programmes. The corpus studied corresponds to the period 2013-2023. The data mobilised concerns diverse social backgrounds and ethnic groups, enabling an intersectional approach (Crenshaw 1989) as well as the overcoming of certain biases specific to Russian studies (Laruelle 2023). The communication will address both the role of the school institution and the learning of gender norms within a peer culture, the product of the agentivity of older children (Lignier et al. 2012).