Reconstruction of women images in history teaching

Due to the changing objectives and methods social history takes its part in teaching history. With the changing interest in social history and daily life the look at the importance of woman history has changed. The impact of feminism and gender studies was that the woman issue in history books started to be scrutınızed. The increasing interest in woman images and roles lead to images studies.This dissertations goal is, to underline the deficit of woman images in the history text books and give way to reconstruct this images as such. Besides that it has the objective to question the attitudes of pupils and understand their attitudes.In order to reconstruct woman images the Likert-type scale was used and developed in the first part to measure the attitudes of the students. Categorıes of the survey were male and female differences, class levels, the educational level of parents. The other way two questions were offered to see if there were differences due to gender and eduction level of the parents. The outcome were the woman images and roles which the pupils advised. The analyses of the questionnaire are shown in tables.Images are developed and presented. The suggested woman images wıth their historical background is presented. It can be added a lot of persons and information to the findings. To show the images model woman were chosen. Every images chapter can be used as research subject and because of that and can not be concluded in this Project.Woman in their appearence in hıstory might be in different areas. The basic question remains which image should be ground for he establishment of such in the text books. This Project tries to overcome this problem with telling the stories under different subtitles. To support the woman images which could be part of history text books there is a list of images in the appendix.