Underrepresentation and Exclusion: The Hidden Curriculum in Language Textbooks of Basic Level Education in Nepal
This study delves into the portrayal of gender in Nepal's Grade 5 language textbooks: the Nepali Textbook Grade 5 (NTB5) and the English Textbook Grade 5 (ETB5) using content analysis and the concept of hidden curriculum (Apple, 1971; Chao, 2011). For this, visual illustrations, textual references, authorship patterns,...