Gender and intercultural identity in ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) textbooks and educational media. Are we reproducing attitudes from the past?

Autor/in	Esplugues Cebrián, Marta
Titel	Gender and intercultural identity in ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) textbooks and educational media. Are we reproducing attitudes from the past?
Quelle	Aus: Gissel, Stig Toke (Hrsg.): Researching textbooks and educational media from multiple perspectives. Analysing the texts, studying their use, determining their impact. Odense: UCL University College (2020) S. 143-150 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustration 1; Literaturangaben S. 150
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	87-971113-0-9; 978-87-971113-0-7
Schlagwörter	Stereotyp; Autismus; Autismus; Geschlecht; Schulbuch; Stereotyp; Interkulturalität; Interkulturalität; Schulbuch; Geschlecht
Abstract	This work looks at the publisher GEU that publishes educational materials for special needs and inclusive students which caters towards individualized learning. They are currently considering re-printing and adapting some of their traditional textbooks to include updated content about gender and intercultural identity. Our purpose is to offer the publisher an investigative report focused on these concepts to give them advice on improving their future materials before printing them. The main question addressed in the research is whether the publishers are still reproducing the same stereotyped models as decades ago. The methodology used in the investigation was qualitative, in line with authors such as Giroux (1996) from the critical pedagogy, for that reason, we have created our own file to identify gender and intercultural identity representation based on preceding works by pedagogists such as Martínez Bonafé (1995) and Parcerisa (1996). The file was used to review the book entitled: Enjoying English with pictograms 1,2 activity books, belonging to a new collection of materials especially recommended for English language students with ASD printed in 2018. The results of the study did indeed demonstrate that they are still reproducing sexist models in their content, without inclusion of all sexual affective options, that racial differences are sometimes represented by stereotypes with the represented family models consisting of single-parent families and lacking in representation of interracial or mixed marriages, and finally a gay family appeared in only one of the pictures. Months after our investigation, the publisher GEU released a pack on the market called "Mi estuche de pictos": Todo son familias (my pack of pictograms: They are all families) where allow teachers and students to use pictograms of different family models depending on their requirements and include models such as families with two fathers or two mothers, single-parent families, alongside a traditional one. A challenge that has no yet been addressed by them is the introduction of racial differences into these family models. Therefore, it is our role as researchers analysing the text to study their use in the classrooms to determine their impact on the educational market as well as advise the publishers on how they can improve Textbooks and Educational Media by including multiple perspectives.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2023/1