Seeing ‘Gender’ in Folk Customs:An Action Research on Gender Equity Education

• Main Authors: Wang ying-ying, 王穎瑩
• Other Authors: Tsai Liling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81930749560589256859

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 性別教育研究所 === 95 === This action research is to explore the gender politice in traditional folk customs by working with a class of grade of four students in an elementary school. In order to help students discover the gender relations in and the impact on folk customs and activities, a teaching plan which integrates concepts of gender equity education into courses of folk customs is designed. The themes of the folk courses are two folk customs, giving birth and getting married. The courses intend to explore three unfair gender relationships: the dichotomy of gender, the women by otherized, and the concept of having a son to carry on the family name. During the teaching process, I found that I myself still keep integral and monolithic ideas of ‘women’. Also, there is unfair relationship by means of the operation of gender politics. In the research process, first, students see the gender dichotomy. After the course, most of them have learned to respect people’s choice about the gender. Second, though research participants do not care the female status in folk customs, they are willing to care about women’s feelings, and even provide them support to change their status. At last, students can easily identify the ingrained value of having a son to carry on the family name and find out it is the origin of gender discrimination. As a whole, students actively take a part in the course, and provide living experience instead of passively following the classroom teaching. As a researcher, course designer and a teacher, instead of putting emphasis on personal technical phase, I have learned to have deeper understanding in folk customs and the structures of the gender relationships.