How we teach diversity: An intersectional study of the Spanish Language and Literature materials

Abstract

In this article the Spanish Language and Literature (SLL) materials are analyzed during the 2019-2020 academic year at the Bellaguarda Institute of Secondary Education (Altea, Alicante), especially in the first, second and third textbooks from Compulsory Secondary Education (CSE), from the publishers Oxford and Anaya, as well as in anonymous surveys of students on diversity in the teaching-learning process. Teaching and research practice allows us to rethink the methodology and the imposition of a canon against alterity at a basic stage (from twelve to fifteen years) for the configuration of identities. On the one hand, from a Hispanic and not just Castilian perspective, we will analyze the attention that women receive in such files (printed and virtual); and, on the other, we will study how the construction of gender and diversity is dealt with through the SLL at an age in which both inside and outside the classroom a large part of our alterities and affective, emotional and sexual to communicate, understand and express a speech.