Linguistic sexism in Qatari Primary Mathematics textbooks

Linguistic sexism and gender stereotyping are barriers to gender equality. If they are inculcated at an early age, they could be institutionalized and become part of the social code. Hence the school environment, where children receive their earliest education about society, norms, culture and the w...

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Main Authors:	Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Bahiyah Abdul Hamid, Yuen, Chee Keong, Zarina Othman, Azhar Jaludin
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UKM 2012
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3263/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3263/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3263/1/pp_53_68.pdf

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spelling	ukm-32632016-12-14T06:34:07Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3263/ Linguistic sexism in Qatari Primary Mathematics textbooks Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Bahiyah Abdul Hamid, Yuen, Chee Keong Zarina Othman, Azhar Jaludin, Linguistic sexism and gender stereotyping are barriers to gender equality. If they are inculcated at an early age, they could be institutionalized and become part of the social code. Hence the school environment, where children receive their earliest education about society, norms, culture and the world around them, should be free of such biasness.One medium where linguistic sexism and gender stereotyping can exist is school textbooks. Children exposed to textbooks that contain gender ideology may internalize it.This paper, therefore, aims to study the linguistic sexism in Qatari primary mathematics textbooks. A quantitative qualitative approach is adopted. Wordsmith Tools 5.0 is used for the quantitative analysis and Fairclough’s (1989) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used for the qualitative analysis. The findings reveal that males are more visible than females in imported texts. However, in the Qatari published textbooks, females are more visible and dominant than males. This paper also discusses the implications of the findings on teaching and learning in the schools. Its objective is to raise the awareness of the existence of linguistic sexism and gender stereotyping in school textbooks. Penerbit UKM 2012-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3263/1/pp_53_68.pdf Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, and Bahiyah Abdul Hamid, and Yuen, Chee Keong and Zarina Othman, and Azhar Jaludin, (2012) Linguistic sexism in Qatari Primary Mathematics textbooks. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 12 (1). pp. 53-68. ISSN 1675-8021 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema/gemacurrentissues.html
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description	Linguistic sexism and gender stereotyping are barriers to gender equality. If they are inculcated at an early age, they could be institutionalized and become part of the social code. Hence the school environment, where children receive their earliest education about society, norms, culture and the world around them, should be free of such biasness.One medium where linguistic sexism and gender stereotyping can exist is school textbooks. Children exposed to textbooks that contain gender ideology may internalize it.This paper, therefore, aims to study the linguistic sexism in Qatari primary mathematics textbooks. A quantitative qualitative approach is adopted. Wordsmith Tools 5.0 is used for the quantitative analysis and Fairclough’s (1989) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used for the qualitative analysis. The findings reveal that males are more visible than females in imported texts. However, in the Qatari published textbooks, females are more visible and dominant than males. This paper also discusses the implications of the findings on teaching and learning in the schools. Its objective is to raise the awareness of the existence of linguistic sexism and gender stereotyping in school textbooks.
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author	Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Bahiyah Abdul Hamid, Yuen, Chee Keong Zarina Othman, Azhar Jaludin,
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author_facet	Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Bahiyah Abdul Hamid, Yuen, Chee Keong Zarina Othman, Azhar Jaludin,
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title	Linguistic sexism in Qatari Primary Mathematics textbooks
title_short	Linguistic sexism in Qatari Primary Mathematics textbooks
title_full	Linguistic sexism in Qatari Primary Mathematics textbooks
title_fullStr	Linguistic sexism in Qatari Primary Mathematics textbooks
title_full_unstemmed	Linguistic sexism in Qatari Primary Mathematics textbooks
title_sort	linguistic sexism in qatari primary mathematics textbooks
publisher	Penerbit UKM
publishDate	2012
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3263/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3263/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3263/1/pp_53_68.pdf
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