Study On Gender Problems In Curriculum

Gender problem in curriculum has been the hottest issue among educationists. It is the important mission for current education to fully develop the potential in girls and women and set up a social cultural environment which can achieve the gender equality. Western Feminism rooted from 19^th century, it primarily referred to a political activity or movement that women fight for equality in political,economic and human rights with men. And gradually it turned to a cultural thoughts, it formed a complex ideological system through more than 200 years' evolvement. Education has been the core issue which Western Feminism focusing on. Postmodern Feminism is the combination of Feminism and Modernism, gender problems is the vital issue for Postmodern Feminism. Based on the interests in gender problems and the realization on Postmodern Feminism, the author tries to set up a unique curriculum view which shows the equality and respect diversity by analyzing the gender problems. This dissertation consists of 5 chapters. The first chapter mainly introduces the current study,some definitions and the significance. The second chapter introduces the theoretical principle of Postmodern Feminism. The third chapter deals with the unique curriculum views of Postmodern Feminism. The fourth chapter tries to find out the gender problems in curriculum and analyzes the gender problems' effects on all aspects of curriculum. The last chapter raises some solutions to settle down the gender problems in current curriculum based on the Postmodern Feminism.