Özet:

Beginning with the view that the visual components of elementary and middle school Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge textbooks contributed to negative gender stereotypes in Turkey, this study was carried out in an effort to highlight the need to improve the visual components of these textbooks. The textbooks were divided according to time period and were examined using the method of content analysis. It was found that these textbooks contained no pictures of female worship other than those pictures depicting women’s performance of the salah prayers and the du‘a supplication. This study also found that women were generally pictured in the home, whereas men were generally pictured outside of the home. An additional finding was that the visual components of these textbooks relating to vocational activity reinforced traditional gender stereotypes. The image of women contained in the visual components of the textbooks was found to vary according to a number of factors, including the policies of the Ministry of National Education in the period in which the book was published, the author, and age of the person composing the picture. Finally, the findings of this study were discussed in relation to pertinent literature in the field

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