Gender Representation in Hong Kong Primary School ELT Textbooks--A Comparative Study

Autor/in	Lee, Jackie F. K.
Titel	Gender Representation in Hong Kong Primary School ELT Textbooks--A Comparative Study
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 26 (2014) 4, S.356-376 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2014.916400
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Females; Elementary Schools; Textbooks; Stereotypes; Foreign Countries; Gender Discrimination; Social Cognition; Second Language Instruction; Textbook Content; Comparative Analysis; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Weibliches Geschlecht; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Klischee; Ausland; Soziale Kognition; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Lehrbuchtext; Hongkong
Abstract	This article seeks to investigate whether the improvement of the status of women in Hong Kong in recent decades, effected through various efforts to promote the values of equal opportunity concepts, is reflected in patterns of gender representation in primary school textbooks used in Hong Kong. A comparison of a popular series of primary school English-language textbooks that was published in 2005 with the same series published in 1988 (12 books in total) revealed increase in gender equity in the more recent books, including increased visibility of women both visually and textually. Nevertheless, the findings also revealed a perpetuation of some stereotyped images of the two genders and portrayals of women in a more limited range of social roles than men. The "male-first" phenomenon and the visual and textual under-representation of women were still prevalent in the contemporary textbooks. The potential impacts on children of unbalanced gender representation in textbooks are discussed within the framework of social cognitive theory. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10