Stručni rad
FEMME FATALE WITH FIVE CHILDREN. AN ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL HISTORY TEXTBOOKS FROM THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE
Đurđa Knežević
orcid.org/0000-0003-3708-8248
; Pod makinu 5, 21423 Nerežišća, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This analysis of textbooks and working material is based on documents determining
the curriculum standards and plans and the programme for primary
schools of the Ministry of science, education and sport, as well as the UN conventions
regarding the abolishment of all forms of discrimination of women.
Covered by the analysis are the textbooks approved by the Ministry of science,
education and sport. As focal points of the paper’s subject matter and
the centres of analysis, six aspects have been singled out: 1) contextualisation
of women (individually or as social groups) in the thematic (textbook) framework,
integration into the contents or mere addition of separate parts to the
textbook whole, 2) lack of specific material pertaining to the equality of the
sexes, 3) so-called women contents or subjects (housekeeping, female beauty,
fashion), 4) wives, widows, mothers, sisters... of illustrious husbands, sons,
brothers, 5) important women – inclusion or ignoring of eminent women –
rulers, scientists, artists, 6) successful examples – entire textbooks or some
individual solutions.
The analysis shows that only a small part of the textbooks and working material
successfully integrates contents relating to women in such a way as to
portray them uninfluenced by stereotypes. Further, the textbook authors had
major problems with incorporating material dealing with women into historical
events as a whole. Women and their activities, even the ones perceived as
“male”, as still merely added to history. Neglect or complete absence of certain
great historical subjects has also been noted, e.g. of matriarchate/matrilineality
and the subsequent development of the patriarchate. All authors found
it much easier to portray women separately, either individually or as social
groups, though the latter has, in general, been less successful than the former
(important women, rulers, scientists, artists). Their position in various times
is almost without exception described by the phrase “women remain at home,
they cook, they look after the children, they have no rights...” with some variations
in detail, but not in the essentials.
Ključne riječi
stereotypes; gender; equality of the sexes; discrimination; education
Hrčak ID:
84625
URI
Datum izdavanja:
6.6.2012.
Posjeta: 2.248 *