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The Effects of Practical Arts Teaching-Learning for Gender Equality Education on Gender Role Attitude

With the object of identifying the effects of practical arts teaching-learning for gender equality education on gender role attitude, this study developed a teaching-learning material for gender equality education in relation to the unit of ‘Understanding Family and Work’ in the practical arts curriculum, applied it to a experiment group, and analyzed its effect on children’s gender role attitude. Major results of this study were as follows. First, a significant difference was found in gender role attitude between the experiment group, to which the practical arts teaching-learning plan was applied for gender equality education, and the control group, to which ordinary classes were applied. Second, according to the result of investigating the sub-areas of gender role attitude, which are ‘the area of family life’, ‘the area of non-family life’ and ‘the area of fixed idea on gender’, the experiment group showed significant differences in all the three areas of gender role attitude. Third, according to the result of investigating gender role attitude by gender, male students in the experiment group showed significant differences in ‘the area of non-family life’ and ‘the area of fixed idea on gender’ but not in ‘the area of family life’, and female students showed significant differences in all the three areas. As presented above, elementary school students’ gender role attitude is not fixed but can be improved in terms of equality through systematic instruction using various materials and methods. In addition, this study shows that gender equality education in practical arts is an effective method for elementary school students, both male and female, to have the gender role attitude of equality.