Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Bartın Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, cilt.10, sa.1, ss.232-242, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
Being a sample for the field of sociology of education, this research aims at analyzing the gender perceptions and gender stereotypes of students through their creative writing activities. The participants of the study chosen by purposeful sampling technique are 97 3rd grade students who study at a primary state school in Samsun, Turkey. A child of 9 years has knowledge of a person’s behavior that is equal to his/her gender stereotypes in terms of child development. So, the participants were chosen intentionally of this age group. As the 82 writings of the students were valid for this research, the sample of the study is 82 writings, 43 of which were collected from girls and 39 of which are from boys. Carried out through qualitative and quantitative, that is, mixed type research paradigms, the design of this study is content analysis. As the data collection technique, document analysis is employed to the free topic creative writing activities of children. During data collection period and procedures, the students were free to choose the topic and the setting was their own classroom to create a natural accommodation. The parents of the students were asked to receive their consents before the activity. As for the data analysis, content analysis was also used as the data analysis technique. The children’s writings were examined for five categories evaluated from the previous studies in literature. These categories were choice of the topic, frequency of male and female characters, attributes, occupational roles and domestic roles. The findings of the study, in short, show that stereotypical differences and gender perception differences occur in the creative writings of children.