The Effect of Creative Drama Based Education Program on the Attitudes of Guidance and Psychological Counseling Candidates Towards Gender Roles

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Tor D., Derin S.

8. International Conference on Gender Studies, Gazimagusa, Kıbrıs (Kktc), 12 - 14 Mayıs 2022, ss.66, (Özet Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Gazimagusa
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Kıbrıs (Kktc)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.66
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Gender studies examine how perceptions of men and women are shaped in society during the socialization process, what kinds of problems social roles cause for men and women, and which dynamics in society cause gender inequality. While researches in higher education reveal the gender perceptions, attitudes, and thoughts of university students, they also aim to take precautions regarding gender inequality. This study was based on the need for the students of the Guidance and Psychological Counseling Department to have a sensitivity to gender equality and to prevent gender inequality in the schools and other institutions where they work in their professional lives with the skills they acquire. Therefore, this study aims to examine the effect of the creative drama-based education program designed to develop gender role sensitivity on the attitudes of students in the guidance and psychological counseling program towards gender roles. The research is quantitative research and an experimental design with a pretest-posttest control group was used. The research was carried out with 26 students, 13 in each of the experimental and control groups, studying at a state university in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. As a data collection tool, the 38-item Attitude Scale on Gender Roles, developed by Zeyneloğlu and Terzioğlu (2011) to determine university students' attitudes towards gender roles, was used. In practice, a 12-week program based on the creative drama method was carried out. Program content includes media products (newspapers, films, posters, advertisements), and written cultural elements (proverbs and idioms). Nonparametric Mann Whitney-U test and non-parametric Wilcoxon Signed Orders Test were used for data analysis. According to the results, there was a significantly difference in post-test scores of the experimental and control groups and this difference was in favor of the experimental group. As a result, the creative drama-based program was effective for psychological counseling candidates to gain sensitivity to gender roles.