The Gender Education and the Necessity of Improving the Curricula in the Elementary Education - the Analysis of the Scholar Texts

Abstract

This study describes the gender steryotypes, portreid in figures and in sentenced like masculine and feminine in the texts of the primary cicle. The aim of this study is to explore the steryotypes connected with the gender roles, in the teaching text of the primary cicle in Albania. More specifically this study aims to identify the: 1.The frequency of the showing (presentation) of the characters feminines and masculines, the primary teaching text; 2. The way of the portraying the masculines and feminines connected to the family roles (house keeping in a family level); 3. The way of portraying the masculines and feminines connected to the professional roles and the activities away from home (economic and employment activities), the primary scool teaching texts.The used methodology in this study is the analysis of the conten t. the sampling used in this study, were some primary school texts from the 1st – 4th class: such as the ABC, Social Education , Albanian Language , biology , Musical Education, Reading, etc. The data collected from this study, result that all the above analysed texts, do have high stereotypical doses.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v4n1s1p129