Beyond pictures and pronouns : sexism in teacher education textbooks

The content of current teacher education textbooks was analyzed in regard to the attention pad to contributions of women to society, recognition and discussion of sexism, and sex stereotypes. Also presented are measures teacher educators need to take to rectify potential inaccuracy and imbalance in the textbooks they use. Biased attitudes were present in texts on foundations of education, social studies methods, mathematics and science methods, language arts, and educational psychology. Texts analyzed are identified by author's name. Appended is a section on racial and ethnic minorities and a selected bibliography on sexism in education.