Comunicando en igualdad a través de la educación: Propuestas didácticas desde las áreas de Lengua española y Lengua inglesa

Abstract

Over centuries the feminist movement has struggled to achieve equality between men and women emphasizing access to education and knowledge as ways to eradicate inequalities and violence against women. This violence is manifested in different ways. Apart from the physical and verbal violence, there is a symbolic violence based on the relations of inequality and discrimination, represented by the presence of male-chauvinism and the normalization of the subordination role of women. Education continues reproducing a normative discourse that perpetuates the patriarchal and sexist culture supported by mechanisms that legitimize differences based on gender. In addition to the development of critical capacity, the teaching practice has the responsibility to provide alternative communication codes that remove the traditional model of female representation that perpetuates sexism. Along with formal education, the media and new technologies become areas of socialization among adolescents, where gender roles are still present. The behaviours in the virtual environment have a direct projection in the real world, erected in behaviour patterns that consolidate an inherited culture. Under these premises we present some didactic experiences, together with the analysis of their results, addressed to the students of the Primary Education Degree to raise awareness and train future teachers in gender equality. The results reflect the need to include the gender perspective in the didactics, since the inherited culture normalizes stereotyped behaviours that are not easy to identify, and it is essential to recognize them in order to eradicate them. Thus, coeducation is presented as a key tool for building a fairer and more equal citizenship.