Woman's Image at Civic Education Textbooks in the Palestinian ‎Curriculum from 7th to 9th Grade

Woman's Image at Civic Education Textbooks in the Palestinian ‎Curriculum from 7th to 9th Grade

Alia Al-Assali

alia_71@najah.edu

Department of Primary Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine

Received : 15-05-2005 , Accepted : 24-05-2006

Language: Arabic

Abstract

This Academic study aimed at investigating woman’s image and how it was dealt with in civic education textbooks for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade in the Palestinian curriculum. the researcher analyzed the syllabus into pictures, concepts, drawings, activities and evaluation to investigate woman’s image in family, work, educational and learning process, political participation, and job images distribution, in order to investigate the range of her representation comparing to man. The research indicates that woman was represented but in a random and unmethodological way in civic education textbooks. Regarding the results the research recommends to pay more interest to the quality in which woman is represented taking her a way from traditional stereotype, and to pay more attention to the distribution of job images fairly between both male and female which will reflect to some extend a realistic and practical society.

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