A Study on Gender Ideology of Senior High School Citizen and Society Textbooks

• Main Author: 黎倩菱
• Other Authors: 張樹倫
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55785871925368154741

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系在職進修碩士班 === 101 === The purpose of this study is to use content analysis to find out gender ideologies in senior high school's Citizen and Society textbooks. Study will be based on volume one to four of the course textbooks of Citizen and Society class, with particular focus on texts published from Lungtung and Nani . After setting up the research purpose and objectives, the study will go through literature reviews to understand the meanings and developments of gender equality. And based on the previous studies, the standards which conducted domestically and internationally, the study categorized the quantitative analysis into six areas: Imbalance, Stereotyping, Invisibility, Linguistic Bias, Fragmentation, and Cosmetic. Quantitative and qualitative analysis then would be conducted based on the six areas mentioned above. To examine whether course textbooks implied indirectly the gender ideology, and how are the gender issues represented? Whether the representation is completed? Whether the textbooks carry gender stereotype phenomenon? And when describing particular issues, whether particular gender focus is excluded? Whether language texts implied linguistic bias indirectly ? The study concludes the following: 1. Gender "Imbalance" is significant. 2. "Stereotyping" is concentrated more on the areas of career projects, household work division, and segmentation of color based on genders . 3. Textbooks doesn't show "Invisibility" significantly, and that homosexual and multi-gender examples are minimum. 4. Texts of " Linguistic Bias" are rare. 5. Systematic introduction of gender relationship and respect equality are shown in texts from both publishers. 6. A slightly significant of "Cosmetic" are shown in text covers and some of the figures in the texts. Overall, the results of the study which focused on the Citizen and Society textbooks from two publishers did not reflect the gender ideology significantly. Thus, based on the conclusion above, the study makes few recommendations as followed: 1. Increase the proportion of female samples. 2. Increase the career types for female samples, and lesser the career segmentation. 3. Use different figures for different genders doing household works. 4. Avoid label females with the color pink when choosing colors. 5. Increase homosexual and multi-gender issues and related descriptions.