Recently gender equality promotion and education has been accentuated as one of may schemes to eliminate gender discrimination rooted everywhere in our lives and attain a sexually impartial society. The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Develo...
Recently gender equality promotion and education has been accentuated as one of may schemes to eliminate gender discrimination rooted everywhere in our lives and attain a sexually impartial society. The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development communicates its importance by producing and educating training books for gender equality promotion and education.
Gender equality promotion and education is an education that promotes male and female individuals to sufficiently manifest their latent characteristics and plan out life and view the world out of free will. In order to actualize this education, The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development emphasizes the importance of the textbook and teacher's role. The role of the textbook is given particular importance because it is cardinal educational data that represents the education process. Thinking of its ripple effect, the textbook should be produced in a sexually equal standpoint, provide an adequate role model for both male and female students, and help build a healthy gender identity.
Looking into our textbooks in this point of view, female composers rarely appear in the history of Western music. Students do not recognize the existence of a female composer from the outset and develop a subconsciousness that females cannot become respectable composers. Music course is not a study characterized as advantageous necessarily for men to exhibit their distinguished talents. It is merely dressed with a background of an androcentric society and has been seen in that way.
In this context, this paper analyzes the sex ratio of male and female composers in the field of Western music history in existing middle school music textbooks, and further analyzes the male and female sex ratio in the Textbook Compilation Committee. As a result, out of 9 types of textbooks in a total of 27 books, there is female composer who is Clara Schumann in 8th grade Sung An Dang textbook, and Clara Schumann, Bang-Ja Huh in the 9th grade Tae Sung textbook, and in a Ji Haksa textbook Clara Schuman is introduced as Robert Schumann's lover and holds no special meaning. The remaining publishing companies do not deal with any female composers at all. This vividly shows us that men possess absolute superiority in the field of Western music. Also, as a result of analyzing the sex ratio in the Textbook Compilation Committee, men were found to be occupying superiority as expected. There were 17 men out of 26 people which round up to a 65%, and 9 were female that took up 35%. It does not mean that the gender has to be female. Though it might be male, one should be someone who possesses a healthy sexual identity free from male chauvinism. Finally, there is an introduction of the musical activities of female composers following the textbook analysis. Anticipation remains for an active reconsideration of this in the later curriculum.