A Comparative Study Of Gender Bias In High School Chemistry Textbooks

Textbook is the main carrier of human knowledge and ideology for students to obtain knowledge and acquisition of social identity values,beliefs and attitudes.Through the study of feminist critical review of knowledge and education,we found chemical textbooks as knowledge education tools may have a gender bias,even scientific knowledge itself may have a gender bias.The study was designed to answer the question of whether there are gender bias and prejudice.Through the study on the education line and knowledge analysis line combined with two-wire gender bias critical dimension of content and classification table,using the content analysis method to make the gender prejudice comparative study of China,present three versions of the chemistry textbook.In each of the three categories of gender frequency,and calculate the percentage(including the percentage of different categories within groups and between same-sex sexual in the same category percent).Combined with the chi square test and descriptive statistics: gay groups within(three categories)of different gender differences and the percentage distribution of the same category within the group(amphoteric)percentage distribution of differences in the number of gay population distribution category measure the differences in gender,the same percentage difference in the latter category difference measure.The great difference between the former is called inter class bias,and the latter is called intra class bias.The results show that the three versions of the chemistry textbook pictures are biased and 20 class among men: male occupation role prejudice,female occupation role prejudice,"science",occupation role prejudice,"general science and technology the role of prejudice,workers" occupation "workers" occupation role prejudice,"primary and secondary school students' occupation role prejudice," other "occupation role prejudice,men's personality traits between personality traits between male prejudice,bias,prejudice,female personality traits between cooperation activities between bias and prejudice,female male dress style dress up between" short hair without prejudice,"dress up in prejudice," short hair has to be dressed in "prejudice," long hair without "dress up in partial See "long hair must be" dress style bias.The PEP and Jiangsu Shandong version more than 2 kinds of prejudice and bias between within class: domestic cooperation activities and scientific experimentation activities in prejudice.Three edition textbooks picture all have 8 kind of prejudice: prejudice between bias and prejudice,appear in occupation role prejudice,occupation role prejudice,personality traits and personality traits between the bias bias and prejudice between dress and dress up in the way of prejudice.The PEP and Roucaud textbooks in addition to the above 8 categories second level of prejudice,there is cooperation between prejudice and Prejudice in cooperative activities.After a comparative study of the three versions of the chemistry textbook picture bias ideas,this study obtained the research results of three versions of the chemistry textbook text bias: three versions of the chemistry textbook text there are 14 kinds of prejudice and bias: between within class men among women is between bias and prejudice,"people alone" prejudice "no,instead of gender pronoun alone" prejudice,male personality traits between prejudice,"Name Gender technology within the noun" prejudice,male occupation role prejudice,female occupation role prejudice,"scientists" occupation role prejudice,"Explorer" occupation role prejudice,"the businessman" occupation the role of personality traits between male prejudice,bias,prejudice,personality traits between male female personality traits between prejudice.The 14 categories of the above categories are classified into the category of the analysis of the table of the third categories,called the third level bias.This study is also based on the percentage difference between the number of gay groups gender distribution category with the same category within the measure of bias size,and discharged three versions of the chemistry textbook class 23 grade third text prejudice order.The above 14 kinds of prejudices constitute the 6 category of the second edition of the textbook in the three edition.The occurrence of inter modal bias,in the way of prejudice,professional role bias,professional role bias,personality trait bias,personality trait bias.The paper gives out the order of the magnitude of the bias of the 6 class of the grade second images in the version of the textbook of chemistry in the three edition.Further,given the overall bias in the three versions of the chemistry textbook:Jiangsu edition pictures,PEP minimum overall bias center,maximum roucaud.At the end of textbooks,the cause of gender bias are analyzed: direct factors include writers gender,politics,economy and culture and the history of science;fundamental factor lies in the change of the gender division of labor.The improvement proposal should focus on the elimination of the direct factors of operability(such as the proposed part of the text),but also on the elimination of the basic factors,which requires the coordination of the president of the whole society.This article has a reference significance for expanding and deepening the study of gender bias in senior high school chemistry textbooks and the revision of Chemistry Textbooks in senior high schools.