Gendered Citizenship: A Post-structural and Critical Analysis of the Citizenship Curriculum Regarding Gender

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2022-7-01

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Özdemir Karakuş, Özge
Akar, Hanife

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This study aims to analyze primary school students’ experiencesfrom a gender-based perspective throughout the primary schoolcurriculum taking the curriculum as a phenomenological constructand an apparatus to reproduce orthodoxies in a diverse context inthe Southern region of Turkey. Via utilizing a multi-phaseembedded case study, this research included the qualitative datathat obtained from 4th grade textbooks and 11 schools, includingsite visits, classroom observations, and semi-structured interviewswith 27 teachers, 10 managers, and 10 counselors. Thick data weresubjected to inductive qualitative analysis and triangulated fortrustworthiness. Findings revealed the gendered character ofcitizenship and the reproduction of gender roles through formaleducation, in which boys had more space to act flexible and freecompared to girls. Findings also manifested the intersections ofclass, ethnicity, and nationality with gender, leading to girls’diverse experiences from different socio-economic and culturalbackgrounds. In addition, the existence of resistance was alsoapparent in a few participants’ discourses through whicheducation could be defined as a ‘praxis’ rather than ‘reproduction.’

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102476

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EGITIM VE BILIM

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Ö. Özdemir Karakuş and H. Akar, “Gendered Citizenship: A Post-structural and Critical Analysis of the Citizenship Curriculum Regarding Gender,” EGITIM VE BILIM, vol. 47, no. 211, pp. 297–322, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102476.