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agentX
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
Location: Jeolla province
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 Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:49 pm Post subject: Textbook scandal, volume 5000 |
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Another day, another screwed up textbook scandal.
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Textbooks Hit With Gender Bias Accusation
By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter
Textbooks for primary school students have been accused of containing illustrations that could create a gender bias.
Male characters appear about 30 percent more often than girls in textbook illustrations and are portrayed as main characters, according to a paper coauthored by Prof Kwon Chi-soon of Seoul National University of Education and Kim Kyung-hee, a teacher at Euncheon Elementary School in Seoul.
``Male characters play important roles in many cases while female characters often play passive roles,'' the research team said in the paper. ``Children are vulnerable to the biased role models and textbook writers have to remove those sexual stereotypes.''
The paper said men are depicted as a president, politician, judge, doctor and university professor, while women appear as a teacher, nurse and bank tellers.
Male characters play the main roles about 60 percent more often than their counterparts in textbooks, it said. In social studies textbooks, male characters appeared twice as often as females.
But textbooks for domestic affairs and arts have more female characters than male figures in their illustrations, the paper added.
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This is a followup from the "textbooks-are-too-racist-gate" and "textbooks-are-too-slanted-gate" from last month.
It begs the question:
Should textbooks reflect what a society IS or should textbooks reflect what a society WANTS to be? |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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Ya know, If I had a billion dollars, I'd put together a task force of researchers to make an engaging, fun, smart text book THAT DOESN'T EFFING USE CARTOON CHARACTERS!!!
What is *with* this trend? I personally find it distracting to the students, and socailly damaging because, since the authors are always trying to "tell a story" with the characters, it's either laughably PC or frighteningly one-sided. |
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