Gender Portrayal In English Learning Materials: Teachers' Perspective

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10.2991/icest-17.2017.31How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender, portrayal, learning materials

Abstract

This paper aimed to present the teachers' perspective on gender portrayal in English learning material at an Islamic Schools in South Sulawesi. This research employs participatory action research. Where the teachers as the research participant actively participated in showing their own views about gender portrayal in English teaching materials that they used. The participant of this research were the teachers of English in every level of grades namely grade VII, grade VIII and grade IX. There were three teachers involved in total. Data collected by following a number of research procedures such as participatory mapping the problem, making conclusion and acting and observing. The research covered several category of gender portrayal in textbooks which were male and female visibility, balance/equal, balance but stereotyped, balance and non-stereotyped. The result showed the researcher revealed that the perspectives of the teachers were similar with those categories.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Siti Azisah
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TI  - Gender Portrayal In English Learning Materials: Teachers' Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Science, and Technology (ICEST 2017)
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