The Role of Women in Primary Education Text-Books Images. A Comparative Study between Spain and Morocco
Abstract
The current article is the result of a research carried out by the Research Group of Comparative
Education of Seville. We intend to study the role assigned to the woman in the illustrations in Spanish and Moroccan textbooks. The subjects analyzed are: Natural, Social and Cultural Sciences; Spanish Language and Literature; and Mathematics in Primary Education. We have analyzed 1062 images in the case of Spain and 921 in the case of Morocco, from different publishers.
With this comparative study about the role of the woman and the man in the textbooks, we can know better not only the ideas, the values or attitudes in both countries, but also the way that the knowledge is passed on boys and girls in the schools. The textbooks seem to be invisible mechanisms by which the inequalities appear and are intensified. Nowadays the illustrations in the textbooks must be sufficiently representative of the social changes in different contexts.
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