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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Durrani, Naureen
• CohenMiller, Anna
• Kataeva, Zumrad
• Bekzhanova, Zhazira
• Seitkhadyrova, Assem
• Badanova, Aisulu

Titel

‘The fearful khan and the delightful beauties’: The construction of gender in secondary school textbooks in Kazakhstan

Ist Teil von

• International journal of educational development, 2022-01, Vol.88, p.102508, Article 102508

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper analyses how secondary school textbooks enact gender in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. As a ‘gender paradox’, with universal literacy and yet a higher representation of women at the tertiary level co-existing with multi-sectoral gaps at the expense of women, Kazakhstan offers an interesting context to empirically investigate the taken for granted relationship between education, gender equality and sustainable development. Poststructuralist discursive analysis is complemented with non-discursive methods to illuminate how textbooks entrench gender power relations, construct dominant masculinities and enact emphasised femininities, producing gender hierarchies and naturalising gendered national belonging. Possibilities for transforming gender relations in and through education are discussed. •A contextualised study tracing the integration of SDG 4.7, gender equality in Kazakhstani textbooks.•Text and images across six secondary school textbooks were analysed using discursive and quantitative methods.•Textbook narratives, iconography and images establish androcentrism and subordinate women.•Dominant masculinities are associated with the protector, leadership, excellence in STEM domains and the public sphere.•Emphasised femininities are linked to motherhood, care, culture, tradition, beauty and the domestic sphere.