GENDER ROLES AND EQUALITY THROUGH POPULAR ASIAN DRAMA SERIES: CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

• Authors: Hong Ng Chiew , Cheung Yin Ling
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper draws on two drama series in Asia and demonstrates that studying issues related to gender roles and equality through popular historical Asian drama series is both challenging and fruitful. The present study not only illustrates the complexity involved in studying gender roles and gender equality, but also suggests several teaching pedagogies. Looking at gender roles and equality from a historical perspective and employing a comparative analysis of the past and present can help students assess whether gender roles and equality have remained the same or evolved in the Asian context. Critical literacy enables the broadening of perspectives when taking into consideration the gender roles adopted by the various characters to survive in the complex world. Critical literacy, pedagogies of affect as well as pedagogies of invitation and transformation can be utilized to examine how performing assigned gender roles can result in favouritism, which may in turn lead to atrocities. The implications of the study may be applicable to contexts outside Asia.

Keywords

EN

GENDER EQUALITY; POPLAR DRAMA SERIES; ASIAN DRAMA; CRITICAL LITERACY; PEDAGOGIES

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31 – 47

Contributors

author

Hong Ng Chiew

• Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education English Language and Literature, DepartmentSingapore, Singapore1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616

author

Cheung Yin Ling

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2022-0002