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Gendered Representations in Jordanian Textbooks: A Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis Based on UNESCO Guidelines for the Promotion of Gender Equality
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Edres, Nijmi – Cogent Education, 2022
Recent studies describe Jordan as a context where the encounter between modernity and tradition in the framework of neo-liberal transformations in the labour market have brought about paradoxes affecting women's lives. Despite several policies to implement gender equality introduced by the government, the rapid reduction of the gender gap in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Content, Textbook Bias, Gender Bias
Gender Role in Saudi Arabian Female High School English Textbooks: "Traveller 1 and Traveller 2"
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Al Abiky, Waleed B. – English Language Teaching, 2019
In an era of rapid and sustainable alterations, Saudi Arabia are now going through transformation in gender roles and opportunities. The current study aimed to investigate the gender roles in the two major English language textbooks widely used by Saudi female high school students, namely "Traveller 1" and "Traveller 2," which…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Foreign Countries, Females, Textbooks
The Construction of Gender in Ugandan English Textbooks: A Focus on Gendered Discourses
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Namatende-Sakwa, Lydia – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2018
Informed by a feminist post-structural framework, this study departs from the overriding emphasis on explicit constructions of women in textbooks. It focuses on culturally implicit knowledge and/or gendered discourses that have informed the construction of gender in Ugandan secondary school textbooks. Findings illuminate the construction of women…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Textbook Content, Gender Issues
Gender Representation in the Public Sector Schools Textbooks of Pakistan
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Ullah, Hazir; Skelton, Christine – Educational Studies, 2013
This paper examines gender biases in school textbooks after a decade long effort by the ministry of education (MoE) Pakistan and international organisation (IOs) to eliminate all forms of gender inequality in education. The intention underpinning these initiatives was to nurture a view of gender equality based consciousness through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Textbooks, Public Schools
The Invisible Obstacle to Educational Equality: Gender Bias in Textbooks
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Blumberg, Rae Lesser – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
Gender bias in textbooks (GBIT) is a low-profile education issue, given the 72,000,000 children who still have no access to schooling, but this article argues that GBIT is: (1) an important, (2) near-universal, (3) remarkably uniform, (4) quite persistent but (5) virtually invisible obstacle on the road to gender equality in education--an obstacle…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Gender Bias
Identifying and Combating Sexism in EFL Textbooks--With a Case Study into China
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Tao, Baiqiang – Online Submission, 2008
This paper explores methodologies of identifying and combating sexism in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) textbooks. The writer of this paper has found out there exists sexism or gender inequality in the Chinese high school EFL textbooks. The writer hopes that future EFL curriculum designers, EFL textbook writers, textbook censors in textbook…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Censorship