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In a society where gender equality is constitutionally enshrined and displayed as an educational policy objective, it attempts to examine if school textbook images respond to the demands of social reality, or perpetuate outdated gender stereotyped educational practices. The visual communication system that school textbooks use has the same rhetoric in of the conveyance of ideological and cultural messages as the linguistic system. Therefore, students receive plenty of information from both communication systems about the roles and stereotypes that are considered appropriate for each sex. In the past, several studies have analyzed the linguistic system, while this is the first attempt at an organized and systematic analysis of the visual system in language textbooks, and specifically the one in 6th Grade. Both content analysis, as a measurement technique, and semiotics, as a visual analysis method, were used as a research method. The analysis of data showed that (a) the presentation of the two sexes in the illustration of this language textbook is not objectively compared with social changes,(b) apart from the quantitative inequality that exists in the presentation of the two sexes, there also appears tobe a big difference in qualities such as behavioral characteristics, occupations, and activities, and (c) there is a reduction in the representation of outdated gender stereotypes, which is not necessarily positive, as the diversity of roles they undertake in the modern social sphere is not emphasized.  \nKeywords: textbook, illustration, representation, gender roles, stereotypes, semiotics  \n1. Introduction  \nEquality of educational opportunities for the two sexes has been the focus of many a research project worldwide. According to Turner (1991: 275), gender constitutes a social, economic and cultural structure, is recognized as the basis of social organization, and is equally important as class or race. Gender is not an invariant physical entity, but a product of social and cultural conditions which changes over time, and is divided into biological, which is characterized by biological factors, and social, which is used to describe the social categories of masculinity and femininity, i.e. the characteristics and behavior attributed to each of the sexes, such as occupations, games, household roles, aggression, dependency, domination, sexual partners, gestures, sitting positions, talking styles, etc. (Turner, Abercrombie & Hill, 1991) .  \nThe socialization of gender roles starts from the moment the child is born, within the fa","cbCaiancZOdJD6Sw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiancZOdJD6Sw","pdf",226476,"English","# Introduction\n## Gender and socialization\n## Role of school and curriculum\n## Influence of gender stereotypes\n## Research views on stereotype acquisition","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study focuses on how the two sexes are represented in education, specifically through the illustrations of the 6th Grade Greek elementary language textbook.\"},{\"question\":\"Which research methods are used?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses content analysis (as a measurement technique) and semiotics (as a visual analysis method).\"},{\"question\":\"What do the data show about gender representation?\",\"answer\":\"The illustrations are not objectively aligned with social changes, they show quantitative inequality and qualitative differences in traits, occupations, and activities, and outdated stereotypes are reduced though modern role diversity is not emphasized.\"}]","Gender representations in the illustrations of the 6th Grade Language Textbook used in Greek Elementary School | PDF",1792067426,15]