Gender Bias in the Curriculum: A Reflection from the English Textbook

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210806.082How to use a DOI?

Keywords

EFL textbook, gender bias, influence, visual image, verbal language

Abstract

This paper seeks to explore gender discrimination in the school EFL textbooks. With the awakening of gender equality awareness, gender bias in education has been widely concerned. As a tool in the teaching process, the textbook is one of the essential parts of education, which influences teachers’ teaching methods and affects students’ ideology. Thus, gender bias contained in the textbook imposes far-reaching and negative influence on students’ confidence, learning enthusiasm, future family participation, and employment choice. Also, this paper analyses the representations of gender bias in the textbook from the perspective of visual image and verbal language. Finally, this paper proposes that alleviating the phenomenon of gender bias in textbooks needs the publicity from all walks of life, media dissemination, and financial support for book revision.

Copyright

© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Jingxuan Rong
AU  - Guijia Xue
AU  - Mihan Zhang
AU  - Mengxiao Zhou
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - Gender Bias in the Curriculum: A Reflection from the English Textbook
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 440
EP  - 449
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.082
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.082
ID  - Rong2021
ER  -