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The Study of the Implementation of Gender Equality Education through an Experimental Program of Home Economics in a Junior High School

The purposes of this study were to develop a gender equality program for junior high school, to inquire the individual class students' gender consciousness-raising and to find out the relation between teaching behavior and students' gender consciousness by undergoing a semester teaching experiment. The subjects were one class (19 females, 16 males) of 10th grade students in Junior High School in Kaohsiung City as the case group. The worksheet, depth interview and class observation were used to understand the real condition of the Implementation of Gender Equality Education. ¡uGender Bias Inventory¡vwas administered to the subjects before and after the program. The collective data were analyzed by qualitative and quantitative methods. The major findings were as following: (1) lacking of specific gender equality program, students had indistinct gender consciousness; (2) the response of students presented the dominant of fatherhood; (3) the program had improved the gender consciousness-raising but was rejected by some boys; (4) students who active participated in the program yearned for those knowledge; (5) Awakening of gender consciousness was obvious in the group of girls; (6) There were significant differences between boys and girls in gender bias. Teacher teaching behavior: (1) the response of students had positive feedback on teachers and induced their introspection; (2) the positive discrimination is empowerment for the weak group in the class.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0823101-155114
Date23 August 2001
CreatorsYip, Emily
ContributorsDer-Long Fang, none, none
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0823101-155114
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