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Parents, teachers and educational officials meet to decide on the re-opening of a school where an ongoing dispute with the headmaster resulted in the school not re-opening when the school term started. The emphasis for the training is on the image which accompanies this story.
Parents, teachers and educational officials meet to decide on the re-opening of a school where an ongoing dispute with the headmaster resulted in the school not re-opening when the school term started. The emphasis for the training is on the image which accompanies this story.
Images promote the hegemonic perspective of dominant masculinity: Most visual imagery in news media repeats, emphasizes and reinforces the concept of the dominant male. The “successful” male is often portrayed as assertive or aggressive, even violent; also rich and powerful.
Men are shown in this picture as concerned parents, but it is also important to note that the men feature here too because there is a key issue at stake and important decisions to be made about the opening of the school. Women are not featured in the image, although women too may have been at the meeting.
Exercise one: Scan the local media and look at the images of women and men used in the media. Discuss how:
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