SOCC38H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter No Sissy Boys Here: Hidden Curriculum, Content Analysis, Masculinity
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No sissy boys here: a content analysis of the representation of masculinity in elementary school. School is formally charged by law as legitimate agent of socialization to educate our kids. Sexism became more than topic of philosophical discussion; became legal issue in the schools of the. United states: publishing houses have recognized the importance of ensuring equal representation of all people in textbooks, and most of them have printed guidebooks emphasizing the effects that textbooks could have on children. Scholars have also noted importance of textbooks in teaching children gender behaviors. School is social experience in which social value and attitudes transmitted, and textbooks are agents of this transmission. Previous studies on premise that books powerful tool in shaping children and views of society during formative years. Important that context of out of children"s textbooks be studied to reveal what messages are being conveyed through authority of textbooks in education of youngest citizens: textbook publishers and researchers.
