Content of Teaching Materials as a Means of Constructing Gender Identity of Junior Schoolchildren
The article deals with the problem of constructing gender identity through modern teaching methods for elementary school. Gender identity in frames of the theory of social construction of gender is regarded as an intrapersonal level of gender relations. The analysis of the data concerning the educational and methodical equipment of modern primary school in terms of gender-egalitarian relations reveals some points of self realization of the student's personality created in the course of gender socialization. The features of positioning of typical masculine and feminine behaviour models in textbooks and workbooks on different disciplines. Are allocated sources which broadcast gender stereotypes, and a way of the teacher's behaviour. In the materials for teachers of elementary school attention is supported and focused on the differences rather than the similarities of children of different genders. It was determined that construction of the identity is performed in the open and latent way. Educational-methodical complexes are components of the educational environment of schools, their content is reflected in the educational processes of regulation of students' social interaction, it leads to peculiarities of integrative regulators of educational interaction, reflecting the ideas of gender asymmetry.