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Women's Gender Roles in History Textbooks in Turkey

Cilt: 8 Sayı: 2 21 Nisan 2021
  • Akif Pamuk
  • Köksal Muç
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Women's Gender Roles in History Textbooks in Turkey

Abstract

Although the notion of gender has a biological meaning, the concept of gender refers to a social construction that emerges from a biological basis. This construction includes cultural definitions of masculinity and femininity that are more appropriate for social life. In the definition and distinction of gender roles in social life construction, the discussion of the public and private sphere is seen. Textbooks have an important place as a dominant discourse tool in the public and private sphere debate. Therefore, textbooks in general and history textbooks in particular have an important share in this debate. Textbooks convey stereotypes of gender roles to students and contain descriptions of roles. On the other hand, history textbooks construct and legitimize the historical context along with the definitions of roles. Therefore, history textbooks have an important share in the production of women's gender roles. In this context, it is determined that the purpose of the study is to evaluate the gender roles of women in compulsory or history courses textbooks in the 2019-2020 academic year in Turkey. In the research, document analysis is carried out using a case study, one of the qualitative research designs. 9, 10, 11 and 12th-grade history textbooks and 11th-grade elective History of Turkish Culture and Civilization, 12th grade Turkish Republic History of Revolution and Kemalism and 12th grade elective Contemporary Turkish and World History textbooks were examined. In the study, the discourse repertoires built on women's gender roles were determined using critical discourse analysis. In the textbooks, it has been determined that the gender roles of women are associated with traditional roles such as motherhood, child-rearing, and sewing and embroidery. Besides, although it is argued that women are the subjects of the public sphere in the textbooks, it has been seen that the roles of the private sphere are concretized, clarified, legitimized and reproduced with various examples. As a result, history textbooks have been shaped in a male-dominated structure and the basic discourse produced from this is that women are a part of private life, not the public sphere. To eliminate the disadvantageous situation of women regarding gender roles in history textbooks, guidelines for textbook authors should be prepared in the history course curriculum.

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

21 Nisan 2021

Gönderilme Tarihi

24 Ocak 2021

Kabul Tarihi

28 Mart 2021

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2021 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Pamuk, A., & Muç, K. (2021). Women’s Gender Roles in History Textbooks in Turkey. International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 8(2), 133-147. https://izlik.org/JA44BZ76XR