Images of Men and Women: An Analysis of the Context of Civic Education Textbooks in Occupied Palestinian Territories

Final assignment: Images of Men and Women: an Analysis of the Context of Civic Education Textbooks in Occupied Palestinian Territories (Palestine) The study investigates image of women in Civic Education textbooks in Palestine and the extent to which certain gender outnumbers the other gender in some different aspects (image in Palestinian family, educational and learning process, political participation and job image distribution). The study was conducted in the semester 2013. The civic education textbooks series from grades seven to nine served as the corpus of the study. The researcher used main instrument to conduct the study using the content analysis approach. The study focused on answering the following question: What gender roles are promoted in civic education textbooks, and how is gender presented in civic education textbooks in preparatory school curriculum for grades seven to nine? In light of the results, this study recommends the following: - Distribute gender roles in a balanced way among subjects in civic textbooks particularly in the social, cultural, political subjects so women take part instead of being confined to certain subjects. - The research recommends paying more interest to equal representation of both genders in texts, photos, activities and jobs. Text books authors should rely on the real society culture in dealing with such issues.