Gender and Reading Literacy in Early Childhood Education

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200808.034How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Children, gender issues, reading literacy

Abstract

This paper investigates how gender plays a role in literacy in early childhood. This paper focuses on reading skill as the first literacy skill. What we mean by reading in this paper includes reading the text, reading illustrated stories and other symbols. According to PISA in 2018, Indonesian children’s interest in reading ranks 72nd out of 77 countries surveyed. Thus, increasing children’s interest in reading is very important. There are widely believed assumptions that gender is one of the analytical factors in literacy skills. The myth is that boys have lower reading interests than girls. Thus, analysing literacy in early childhood education from a gender perspective would contribute to understanding of literacy development in early childhood education. Through literature research this paper examines how to address gender gap in literacy.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Maya Lestari
AU  - Hani Yulindrasari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/10
TI  - Gender and Reading Literacy in Early Childhood Education
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Early Childhood Education and Parenting 2019 (ECEP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 174
EP  - 176
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200808.034
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200808.034
ID  - Lestari2020
ER  -