Textbooks, students and teachers talk around gender: A new materialist approach to children's agency
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Kostas, M. 2023. Textbooks, students and teachers talk around gender: A new materialist approach to children's agency. Teaching and Teacher Education. 125, p. 104052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104052
Authors | Kostas, M. |
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Abstract | Theoretically anchored in Butlerian and Baradian approaches to gender performativity, this study scrutinized Athenian elementary pupils' understanding of gender-normative discourses in textbook illustrations and their teachers' capacity to identify such discourses. The findings revealed that educators were unaware of the prevalence of gendered discourses in textbooks and did not make substantive efforts to diminish their harmful effects on pupils’ perceptions of gender. Children, however, are agentic subjects who negotiate gender discourses idiosyncratically. This study argues that introducing non-sexist curricula is not sufficient for combating sexism in education; textbook revisions need to be accompanied by in-service gender-training courses for educators. |
Keywords | Gender discourse; Teachers; Textbooks; Greece; Post-human performativity; Children |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Teaching and Teacher Education |
Journal citation | 125, p. 104052 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
ISSN | 0742-051X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104052 |
Official URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X23000409 |
Publication dates | |
06 Feb 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 30 Jan 2023 |
Deposited | 08 Feb 2023 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
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