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Social Gender Theory-based Of Gender Bias In Textbooks For Primary And Secondary Research Questions

Posted on:2010-05-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y X ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360275962453Subject:Curriculum and pedagogy
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Gender issues will be the introduction of educational research has become a hot topic in educational research, one of which is the future development of education in one of the major trends. At present, a growing number of scholars at home and abroad has been to examine the gender issues in education.Textbook, which the students use as the main medium in their study, gives a concentrated reflection of the understanding from the main-stream culture of socialization of sex and sex role. The sex prejudice contained in the teaching materials reproduces and strengthened the social sex prejudice, affected the students'identification and belonging of the respective sex role in particular, and caused the social rationalization and legalization of the sex prejudice. Therefore, the research of sex image, sex consciousness and sex idea in the teaching materials is a significant practical step to grasp the sex role socialization of the minor and engage in the education of sex equality.In the preface to the first part of research the origin of this problem and described the research methods and ideas, China's primary and secondary school textbooks and the issue of gender bias on the status of the study.Thesis using the text reading method, the use of gender analysis perspective to explore the image of women in textbooks of gender awareness by implication, questioned the textbook as a fine cultural heritage of mankind "statutory knowledge" legitimacy. And make use of these texts and interviews with teachers and students on the first-line investigation, combined with gender discrimination related fields of research results, in-depth the issue of gender bias in textbooks reveals the hidden nature and scope of the preparation of textbooks and preparation of the concept of principles of interoperability strategy.Thesis of the second part of the community has done a systematic analysis of gender theory.Since the mid-20th century, the rise of the gender feminist theory theory is an important branch, the Western feminist theory is a complex, pluralistic ideology, which contains a wide variety of, and views and positions, different feminist from their academic background or practical concerns, from different angles to explore on gender and on, the expression of different theoretical viewpoints. However, generally speaking, feminists, there is a basic consensus that in certain biological differences between men and women on the basis of the emphasis on their social characteristics and the role of social and cultural emphasis on the impact of gender differences, emphasizing the social gender relations.Gender has become with the class, race side by side the scope of an analysis by the sociology, political science, history, literature and the introduction of various disciplines, learn from and promote the various disciplines to become an important entry point, not in the field of education exception.The third part of the first papers on the social system of gender theory in the infiltration of macro-field of education, specifically in education through critical theory and practice of educational research, as well as the critical study of traditional methods of form criticism of the three. Second, I further elaborated gender theory in this specific field of education textbooks infiltration, that is, some of the major Western countries feminist gender studies on the synthesis of textbooks.And further analysis of the Department of textbooks in primary and secondary schools in our country there are serious reasons for gender bias, as well as the entire education and the impact of individual students.In the fourth part, I use the above theoretical weapon, specifically an analysis of gender bias in textbooks in China Research the problem. And further analysis of the Department of textbooks in primary and secondary schools in our country there are serious reasons for gender bias, as well as the entire education and the impact of individual students.Finally, by the above analysis, the author put forward the education policy makers, producers of textbooks, teachers, improvements in three perspectives, and explore ways to achieve balance of textbooks, in order to provide textbooks for the preparation of the reform frame of reference.
Keywords/Search Tags:Textbook, Feminism, Gender
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