| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 性別教育研究所 === 93 === Abstract
The research aims at finding out the gender perspective of the primary school pupils. By analyzing six awarded primary school bulletins of Kaohsiung, it examines the gender perspective shown in every student article of the bulletins, and then offers the reference to contest of a publication and all school editors of editorial staff of campus. Also, it makes the content of the school bulletin incorporate more gender equal education theories and implement the gender equal education.
The approach of the thesis is the content analysis, combining the analysis of quality and quantity, but it goes on with the analysis of the quality to the characters mainly while writing and complements with the interview, participant observation, collect the background materials correlating with this research theme. The measure and analysis unit is “paragraph,” and the research and analysis bases are six classifications: personality trait, appearance characteristic, gender role division, model personage, sex pronoun, personage's appellation.
The result of the study shown as follows:
1. All of the male and female adults described by children writers are the persons who are educated have knowledge. However, on the personality, female adults behave more as the caretakers; the description of “lovely / simple” only refers to female adults while the descriptions of male ones are more than that of women and comparatively more diversified, such as “clever / require mental skill,” “brave / strong,” “active / powerful.”
2. The words and phrases for the personality of boys and girls have diversification but still some differences.
3. In describing male appearance, the character and ability are mentioned as well. The characteristics of men’s appearance are various, but the phrases for women’s appearance are controlled; all words are beautiful or positive.
4. In family life, the activity men are engaged in has become a little flexible, but still has gender-stereotype.
5. Sexual division is still distinct. The activity women are engaged in is mainly housework or taking care of children.
6. The types of jobs and roles of women are half fewer than those of man. The social status and professional degree of women is also lower than those of men.
7. Most of the model personages in the article are men. Moreover, the types of model personages of men are more pluralistic.
8. Children can distinguish and use the pronoun of different sexes, but in the use of personage's appellation, a few children have gender stereotypes; some personage’s appellation refers to the specific sex.
Keyword: Gender stereotype , school bulletin, gender equality, content analysis
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