Breaking the Chain of Social Injustice Through Gender Responsive Civic Education

Abstract

The objective of the research is to analyze the development of awareness about gender equality in students through the learning process of citizenship education. This is one of the strategies to resolve the chain of gender injustice in communities that tend to discriminate against women. This research use qualitative with a participatory action research approach. The subjects are the civic education student's who attend the Perspective Gender class during the semester of July-December 2017. The results show that there are three stages of gender equality awareness of the students. First, to accept the issue of gender inequality within society and the state. Second, respond to the gender inequalities for reasons. The last, analyze gender inequality and giving solutions. The result of the research concluded that there has been a change in gender equality awareness of the students throughout the process of recovery. This condition is assumed can be one of the Efforts in breaking the links of gender inequality and social Injustice, because social Injustice is basically rooted in gender inequality.