Seeking Gender Equity in 1st and 2nd Grade Turkish Social Textbooks
Gizem Aksoy, Nurçin Erdoğan, Fatma Gök, and Asil Ali Özdoğru
The aim of this study was to examine gender role portrayals in 1st and 2nd grade Turkish Social textbooks. For this purpose, a content analysis of the 4 textbooks that were prepared and published by the Ministry of Education in 2001 was carried out. The quantitative and qualitative data showed that equal visibility of men and women in textbooks would not necessarily stand for gender-equality in textbooks. Although the analyzed textbooks were more likely to illustrate evidences for gender-equity, gender bias was still evident in the roles, occupations and settings in which men and women were represented. Improvements in the textbooks and implications for policy-makers and teachers were discussed.
Keywords: Gender-equity, elementary school, Turkish textbooks
Citation: Aksoy, G., Erdoğan, N., Gök, F., & Özdoğru, A. A. (2005, February). Seeking gender equity in 1st and 2nd grade Turkish social textbooks. Poster presented at the 30th annual conference of the Association for Women in Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Gizem Aksoy, Nurçin Erdoğan, Fatma Gök, and Asil Ali Özdoğru
The aim of this study was to examine gender role portrayals in 1st and 2nd grade Turkish Social textbooks. For this purpose, a content analysis of the 4 textbooks that were prepared and published by the Ministry of Education in 2001 was carried out. The quantitative and qualitative data showed that equal visibility of men and women in textbooks would not necessarily stand for gender-equality in textbooks. Although the analyzed textbooks were more likely to illustrate evidences for gender-equity, gender bias was still evident in the roles, occupations and settings in which men and women were represented. Improvements in the textbooks and implications for policy-makers and teachers were discussed.
Keywords: Gender-equity, elementary school, Turkish textbooks
Citation: Aksoy, G., Erdoğan, N., Gök, F., & Özdoğru, A. A. (2005, February). Seeking gender equity in 1st and 2nd grade Turkish social textbooks. Poster presented at the 30th annual conference of the Association for Women in Psychology, Tampa, FL.
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