Open AccessSpanish First Cycle Primary School Textbooks’ Graphic Representations. A Study on Gender, Culture and Functional Diversity
Author(s) -
Olga Moreno Fernández,
Pilar Moreno-Crespo,
Encarnación Pedrero-García,
Coral Ivy Hunt Gómez
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pedagogika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2029-0551
pISSN - 1392-0340
DOI - 10.15823/p.2019.136.5
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , representation (politics) , publishing , cultural diversity , gender diversity , sample (material) , mathematics education , psychology , sociology , art , anthropology , political science , literature , chemistry , chromatography , politics , law , corporate governance , finance , economics
This paper analyses graphic representation of gender, functional and cultural diversity in Spanish Primary Education textbooks. A sample of 528 images from three different textbooks by three of the main publishing houses in Spain was studied. Results showed equal representation in terms of gender. However, textbooks still do not sufficiently include graphic representations of cultural or functional diversity. Greater efforts are needed to ensure that textbooks reflect the classroom‘s reality and that diversity normalized in schools.