Gender dimension of Civics textbooks for lower secondary schools

The study focuses on the gender dimension in education and presents the results of qualitative content analysis of six sets of Civics textbooks for lower secondary schools in terms of gender correctness perspective. The analysis was guided by a set of criteria, concerning the choice of subject topics, presentation of social groups, selected illustrations and examples and linguistic form of text. Professional lives of men and women, their leisure time activities, family and partner life, description of appearance, generalized statements and influential women of the past and present from the various fields of cultural and public life were also observed. Qualitative analysis was complemented by an analysis of the occurence of specified elements.