Pihlaja, Stephen
(2008).
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Abstract
This article is an evaluation of gender roles in the Planet Blue Japanese high school textbook. Using criteria built on biases found by Jane Sunderland, it evaluates the textbook on basis of exclusion, subordination and distortion, and degradation. On the whole, the textbook appears to have made significant improvement in these three criteria, especially in the presentation of career roles for woman. The roles of men and women in romantic relationships presented in the text, however, are still presented in stereotypical terms. The article presents these remaining biases as opportunities for EFL instructors to provoke discussions regarding gender roles in Japanese culture as well as English-speaking cultures.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2008 Stephen Pihlaja |
| ISSN: | 1881-0713 |
| Keywords: | gender roles; high school; textbooks; Japan |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
| Item ID: | 32243 |
| Depositing User: | Stephen Pihlaja |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2012 15:03 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2016 02:43 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/32243 |
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