A Sociological Analysis on Contents of Gender Role in the "Educational Active Program Guidance books in Preschools"

"유치원교육활동지도자료"의 성역할 내용에 대한 사회학적 분석

  • Published : 2007.12.31

Abstract

This study deals with the contents of gender role, using the method of content analysis inquiring total of 40 volumes of the $3rd{\sim}6th$ $\ulcorner$Educational Active Program Guidance Book in Preschools$\lrcorner$ (EAPGP). A lower analysis conviction of gender role was sex division of labor and occupation assortment of the man and woman who gave it and was going to analyze expression for it. The purpose of this study was to make a searching the contents of a gender role in the $3rd{\sim}6th$ EAPGP in Preschools, to offer basics document to the 7th EAPGP. The issues of this study were follows: First, how gender division of labor of man and woman was expressed in EAPGP; Second, how much an occupation of man and woman was expressed in EAPGP; Third, How contents of gender role have been changed in EAPGP. The major findings in this study could be summarized as follows: First, males are described as formal workers and females are mostly seen as housekeepers; second, jobs of males are diversified than those of females; third, gender role discrimination which gives the clues to segregate two sexes tends to be greatly reduced in the 6th EAPGP than in the 3rd, the 4th, and the 5th EAPGP.

이 연구는 제3차에서 6차에 이르는 유치원교육활동지도자료 총40권에 나타난 성역할의 내용을 내용분석법으로 살펴보았다. 연구목적은 유치원 7차 교육과정의 기초 자료를 제공하는데 있었다. 연구문제는 남녀의 성별분업표현, 남녀의 직업 표현에 따른 성역할 내용의 변화에 대한 것이었다. 연구 결과 첫째, 남성은 직장생활이 강조되고 있는 반면 여성은 가사노동이 강조되었다. 둘째, 남녀의 직업은 우리 삶에서 일상적으로 인식하고 있는 직업들로 묘사되고 있었으며, 남성의 직업이 여성의 직업보다 더 다양하게 제시되었다. 셋째, 제6차의 경우는 제 3, 4, 5차에서보다는 남녀의 성을 구분하는 단서를 주지 않으려는 사례가 많았다. 또한 남녀의 차별적인 표현을 없애고, 어느 한 쪽에 치우치지 않기 위해 남녀를 평등하게 제시하는 사례가 많았다.

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