Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives: Gender And Gender Representation Across Human Protagonists In Picture Books

Authors

Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar, University of Northern IowaFollow
Shan Jiang, Baylor UniversityFollow
Sara Tomek, Baylor UniversityFollow
Lisa M. Hooper, University of Northern IowaFollow

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First published in International Journal of Educational Methodology, 8(1):91-105 (2022) published by Eurasian Society of Educational Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12973/ijem.8.1.91

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Keywords

Diversity, gender, gender stereotypes, picture books, teacher training

Journal/Book/Conference Title

International Journal of Educational Methodology

Volume

8

Issue

1

First Page

91

Last Page

105

Abstract

Gender is ever present in education preparation, school materials, curriculum, and school systems. To improve our knowledge about different facets of gender and the extent to which the depiction of gender has changed over time in picture books, there is a need to dig beneath the surface of questions about gender representation in picture books. Given that in-service teachers have proximity to approximately 75 million K-12 students, how in-service teachers think about gender, gender representation, and their own experiences with gender socialization have important implications on how K-12 students think, act, and feel about gender. In this study, we focused on teachers’ responses to a semester-long assignment about the selection and review of picture books. Specifically, we captured teachers’ perceptions on gendered images evidenced in picture books and to what extent there are changes (i.e., economical, emotional, physical, political, and social) in the central character throughout the book. We also explored if perceived changes were different based on the gender of the characters. Teachers reported four types of changes among the characters in the picture book. Emotionally changes in the books’ central characters emerged as the most commonly reported change among our participants.

Department

Center for Educational Transformation

Original Publication Date

2-1-2022

Object Description

1 PDF file

DOI of published version

10.12973/IJEM.8.1.91

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Date Digital

2022

Copyright

©2022 The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Haghanikar, Taraneh Matloob; Jiang, Shan; Tomek, Sara; and Hooper, Lisa M., "Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives: Gender And Gender Representation Across Human Protagonists In Picture Books" (2022). Faculty Publications. 5235.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/5235