Sex and race stereotypes in images of textbooks in primary physical education

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the images that appear in textbooks of Physical Education in the third cycle of Primary Education and see if the stereotypes about gender and race have been eliminated in its contents. We performed a descriptive study using content analysis as a technique of the research. The sample consisted of 997 images from five different publishers (Anaya, Inde, Human Kinetics, Bruno and Rowan) who have published their textbooks from the current Education Act 2/2006. For image analysis, we used the category system developed by Táboas (2009), in a similar study in Secondary Education, adapted to primary education. For information processing using the statistical package SPSS version 17.0. The results obtained confirm the hypotheses, and therefore, the permanence of a dominant male model, white, practiced fitness activities and sports.

Keywords

• gender
• race
• textbooks
• images
• physical education.