Developing Teaching Materials Based on Romance Fiction: Gender-Equity Education in a Junior High School Calssroom

• Main Authors: CHUNG, Pei-yi, 鍾佩怡
• Other Authors: 游美惠
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49790126706184274063

碩士 === 國立花蓮師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 88 === The study explores three central questions that involve the gender ideology of popular romance fiction and gender-equity education: (1)What kind of gender ideology exists in romance fiction in Taiwan? (2)Is it possible to design teaching materials based on romance stories, and to discuss some gender issues in the classroom? (3)What are the students'' responses after the class instruction and discussion? So, the purpose of this thesis is to develop gender-equity teaching materials. The primary instructional goal is to help adolescent students to develop critical consciousness through discussing gender ideology in romance fiction. The study is divided into two parts. The first part is "preparing stage", and the second part is "teaching and developing work". In the first "preparing stage", I review the literatures about romance fiction, and introduce three kinds of code that the novels contain--the code of romance, the code of sexuality, and the code of beautification. Following, I collect some popular romance fiction in Taiwan to demonstrate that the codes exist in romance fiction in Taiwan is similar to the foreign ones. Then, I try to design the gender-equity materials that constitute of gender issues, such as female body and sexuality, date rape, etc. In the "teaching and developing work", I cooperate with a junior high school teacher and put the gender-equity materials in practice in a classroom. Finally, I collect the students'' responses, the scholars'' as well as the cooperative teacher''s comments, and the reflection of myself to improve the materials.