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How textbooks allow space for social biases or writers prejudices

Updated - 13/8/2010 - thehindu.com.

 

"Ma, I’m hungry," says Ramu, entering the kitchen. His mother was chopping greens… read the first few lines of a chapter in the class III State Board textbook for environmental science.

While the lesson goes on to talk about greens, parts of a plant and so on, in the illustration showing the mother chopping vegetables and the child asking her for food, there is another message that is not so loud — that it is the mother who has got to be in the kitchen, preparing food for the family. It is interesting to see how gender biases creep into textbooks, as if to reinforce existing stereotypes. Can textbooks or teachers enable students to question or challenge such notions?

There needs to be a conscious attempt, say teachers.

Recalling one of her classes, S. Chithra, who handles class VI at the Panchayat Union Middle School in Hasthinapuram, near Guduvanchery, says: "We were discussing great scientists and suddenly one child asks me, ’weren’t there female scientists? How come you don’t tell us about them’?" It immediately struck the teacher how children were very closely following the content discussed in the class.

"Another day, we had a debate on who should cook at home. It was very refreshing to hear some boys say they would love to. Teachers should create a space for such voices, too," Ms. Chithra adds.

 

www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Chennai/article563066.ece

 

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