Manifestation of Women’s Rights in School Textbooks? Evidence from Social Science Textbooks in India

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Suzana Košir, Radhika Lakshminarayanan
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In India, consistent marginalization of women suggests that broader societal transformation is needed to transcend gender stereotypes and foster gender equality. Effective school curriculum and textbook content can influence and revitalize mindsets to respect and uphold women’s rights (WR). This research examines the manifestation and extent to which WR is addressed in Indian school social science textbooks using qualitative content analysis. Data from official primary and secondary school textbooks published between 2006 and 2013 and reprinted between 2017 and 2019 were analyzed, based on the components of WR prescribed by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), using descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage). The results indicate that there is negligible focus on WR in textbooks at the elementary level. While both explicit and implicit focus on WR increased at the secondary and senior secondary levels, some vital aspects were either marginally represented or completely missing.

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学校教科书中妇女权利的体现?来自印度社会科学教科书的证据
在印度,妇女一直被边缘化,这表明需要进行更广泛的社会变革,以超越性别陈规定型观念,促进性别平等。有效的学校课程和教科书内容可以影响和重振尊重和维护妇女权利(WR)的观念。本研究通过定性内容分析,对印度学校社会科学教科书中涉及妇女权利的表现形式和程度进行了研究。根据《消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约》(CEDAW)规定的 WR 构成要素,使用描述性统计(频率和百分比)分析了 2006 年至 2013 年出版、2017 年至 2019 年再版的官方中小学教科书中的数据。结果表明,小学教科书对妇女权利的关注微乎其微。虽然在中学和高中阶段,对妇女权利的明确和隐含关注都有所增加,但一些重要方面的内容 要么体现得很少,要么完全缺失。
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期刊介绍: Human Rights Review is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a scholarly forum in which human rights issues and their underlying empirical, theoretical and philosophical foundations are explored. The journal seeks to place human rights practices and policies within a theoretical perspective in order to link empirical research to broader human rights issues. Human Rights Review welcomes submissions from all academic areas in order to foster a wide-ranging dialogue on issues of concern to both the academic and the policy-making communities. The journal is receptive to submissions drawing from diverse methodologies and approaches including case studies, quantitative analysis, legal scholarship and philosophical discourse in order to provide a comprehensive discussion concerning human rights issues.
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