Belief Curricula Planning n Girls' and Boys' Cognitive Fields Differences

Crucial to any education system is curricula planning. Textbooks are isidered to be the product of curricula planning. This study aims at estigating the beliefs held by the curricula planners on gender differences cognitive fields. The research was carried out using qualitative rhodology. Within the target population were included managers, cialists, members of special commissions of department for compilation, sightful individuals on curricula and gender studies. The study's sample nsisted of 77 specialists and curricula planners who were deliberately ... .ected. The data gathering instruments were semi-structured interview, n questionnaire, and field notes. The data analysis method was inductive. ndings indicate that the majority of curricula planners were sensitive to = •.. ·nder differences in cognitive fields. They believed that there did not exist mnate differences between girls and boys in cognitive abilities and that _. ery kind of possible differences between girls and boys, or women and. in cin cognitive fields were of cultural nature; that is the differences were h~<; d on group thought/act/action, classmates behaviour, teachers' and parents' ational methmethods, and in general how the society at large expected the differences to be