| Abstract: | Using the gender perspective to sort out and examine the outmoded gender conventions and set role patterns existing in China's current teaching materials for eliminating illiteracy is a new venture, since this is a corner that has long been forgotten and overlooked. In previous discussions of IE education, we have been accustomed to focusing our attention on equal rights and equal opportunities to education. IE policy has devoted its efforts to narrow the gaps between regions, between urban and rural regions, between ethnic groups, and between genders by means of diversified non-conventional education for adults, and to provide disadvantaged groups with more opportunities and study resources. In practice, the "Spring Bud chun lei] Program" to aid girls who have dropped out of school and IE education targeted mainly at females have played a positive role in improving the overall attributes of China's rural women. However, insufficient attention or sensitivity has been shown toward hidden problems of gender prejudice and gender bias in IE teaching materials, and this has resulted in a gender-blind spot. The introduction of the gender perspective helps us discover problems in things to which one has become accustomed, and these problems are the starting points and breakthrough points for research. |
