Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Fahimeh Farahmand Pour ¹
• elham bahranifard ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Student in MA, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran (corresponding author)

Abstract

Besides textbooks teach students, prepare them to accept their roles in accordance with their gender characteristics, as it is considered by the authors. This study is intended to represent how women’s social – political roles in both elementary and middle high school textbooks, academic year deal 1391-92. Research method is quantitative content analysis based on gender in education between images and text. The results indicate the defining social roles for women new look requires a lot of activities , such as care for the environment, charitable activities and public works, aid workers, and the presence of important social practice such as enjoining good and forbid the evil taking place in the new definition. Also, the categories and content analysis, descriptive and normative statements indicate that further descriptive statements and images in textbooks. But describing the role of women in social and political issues in most cases is not consistent with reality.

Keywords

• educational materials
• Qualitative Content Analysis
• Representation
• social roles
• textbooks
• womens

Main Subjects

• Women's Studies