FORMS OF REPRESENTATION OF GENDER WITHIN THE TURKISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDIES Cover Image

TÜRKÇE EĞİTİMİ ALANINDA YÜRÜTÜLEN ÇALIŞMALARDA TOPLUMSAL CİNSİYETİN TEMSİL BİÇİMLERİ
FORMS OF REPRESENTATION OF GENDER WITHIN THE TURKISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDIES

Author(s): Yonca Koçmar Demirci, Ayşe Soylu
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Language acquisition, Turkic languages, Pedagogy
Published by: Ankara Üniversitesi TÖMER
Keywords: Turkish language education; Gender; Language; Education;

Summary/Abstract: This study sets out to examine how gender is represented in the articles examining the relationship between gender and the subject areas of Turkish Language education. These articles were examined in terms of the distribution of method, data source, and research problem; and whether they include gender issues, how they conclude the findings, and discuss. This study was designed as a qualitative research. 86 articles conducted in the field of Turkish language and included the gender issues in various ways were analyzed by using descriptive content analysis. The results revealed that the researches were generally conducted in quantitative methods, gender was regarded as a categorical variable, no connection was established between gender and other variables, and discussions on gender roles were not included within the results of this researches. It was concluded that the majority of this research contributed to the reproduction of traditional gender roles by dealing with the gender issue through the assigned gender identity as male/female and trigger the reproduction of these roles by repeating the existing findings.

  • Issue Year: 172/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 175-191
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Turkish