Gender Equality in Social, National, and Civic Education Textbooks in the Jordanian Elementary Education Stage in Light of the CEDAW Treaty

Bayan  Nakhleh; Ismail  Zyoud

doi:10.35516/hum.v50i1.4405

Authors

Bayan Nakhleh Department of Sociology, School of Arts, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Ismail Zyoud Department of Sociology, School of Arts, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v50i1.4405

Keywords:

Socialization, gender, curricula, gender equality, CEDAW Treaty

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the degree of the availability of gender equality in the public and private roles, rights, and duties stipulated in the CEDAW Treaty and its areas in the social, national, and civic education Curricula at the elementary education stage in the Jordanian educational system. The content analysis approach is adopted as a research methodology by analyzing the study sample consisting of the national and social education Curricula for the fourth and fifth grades and the national and civic education curricula from the sixth grade to the tenth grade. Several important results are attained in this work. Among these results is that the study shows that the majority of the items examined are the items that equalize in their discourse between men and women by (90.6%) and the items directed towards women are (9.4%). The study also shows that there is no mention of any item directed to men in particular.

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