Diversity of Algerian family models : a critical discourse analysis of middle school second generation textbooks

Abstract EN

The present paper aims first at exploring the important aspects of the family models Algerian second generation textbooks, officially approved by the Ministry of Education and compulsory for middle school students, are encouraging.

Then, it examines, though surely not resolve, the question of whether their designers adopt a gender model family.

Opting for a multidisciplinary critical discourse analysis, this study analyses the discourses along with the related illustrations embedded in the chosen textbooks.

The findings reveal that Algerian second generation textbooks currently used in middle schools give little space for growing diversity of family models.

They show no great eagerness to present more than the extended family model (El Dar Elkabirah) to be the norm for living together as well as no clear evidence for adopting gender model family.