Education and Gender by Education and Gender

Index

mixelleantonias — 2017-09-27 02:50:29 UTC

Gender and sex, are they the same? What do we mean by gender?
Does the gender matter in education?
National context about gender as a social issue.Can we, as teachers, overcome gender inequality in the classroom?

A misunderstanding between sex and gender:

mixelleantonias — 2017-09-27 02:51:26 UTC

Gender has been recently developed as a concept, a controversial topic because of the lack of information that existed a few years ago. People have to integrate to their sexuality brain-slot, the differentiation between having a biological sex and identifying ourselves with one.

According to a study of Universidad de Chile, Chile has the most deficient percentages of the execution of proposals given by the ministry of education about sexual education, in comparison with Latin American countries. Gender was one of the topics that were rated as an important one at the moment to teach sexual education, and the result of it was deficient.

oriettafrancisca — 2017-09-27 02:53:27 UTC

How does gender affect our education? GENDER BIAS IN EDUCATION

mixelleantonias — 2017-09-27 02:53:52 UTC

It is commonly thought that gender bias affects only female students, however, it is now proved that it affects both female and man at the same point so as to strongly prevail until today.
Gender inequalities are still present in the American Educational system, including students of a variety of gender identities; such as transgender, girls and non-binarian students.
Some teachers tend to get specific expectations for girls and boys producing a certain pattern of behavioural problems in the classroom due to the influence of expectations for the self-esteem and self-conception.

According to the video and the above-given resume, here are some self-reflective questions to answer:
a) Were our teachers different from our opposite-sex classmates?
b) Could we perceive this fact when we were school students?
c) Did that affect who am I today?

Avance script

joaquin_loyola96 — 2017-09-27 02:55:39 UTC

mixelleantonias — 2017-09-27 03:10:29 UTC

Hello! This is our online magazine. We invite you to follow us if you want to get informed about Gender's importance in the Educational system and for students' learning process. Along the different posts, you will be able to understand why this topic has a controversial connotation in the Chilean context while comparing the topic's treatment

mixelleantonias — 2017-09-27 03:11:15 UTC

"Three out of four P.S.U national scores are obtained by men, but ranking qualifications show the opposite: female students have a better educational trajectory. How is it possible then, that there is an abysmal difference like this one. P.S.U results show gender and socioeconomic inequality. Is a caducous admission system"

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 14:12:01 UTC

|Mirentxu Anaya, executive president of Educación 2020 educative politics department.

¿What do you think about this?
From your experience, Was the P.S.U a limitation to study?
Among your peer group, could you notice a pattern of difference between men and women?

Read the whole text in here:
http://www.comunidadmujer.cl/2016/12/la-psu-y-las-desigualdades-de-genero-en-educacion/

Interview - Rodrigo Loyola Language teacher

joaquin_loyola96 — 2017-11-15 14:31:14 UTC

This interview has as a main purpose to find out the notion of a teacher who already has experience in this profession, and his answers can be useful to prepare ourselves in the action of teaching. The questions and answers are the following:
1) What does teaching means for you?
¿Qué significa el enseñar para ti?
R: Al decidir estudiar pedagogía, no tenía una real definición de cual era el significado que tenia para mi el enseñar, sin embargo luego de las practicas en los colegios, pude comprender lo importante que es aportar desde los saberes adquiridos en la universidad y lo importante que es captar la atención de los estudiantes de manera que logren estar inmersos en la educación y no se sientan alejados de la experiencia educativa.
Por esto, enseñar es para mi una constante retroalimentación donde todos los sujetos trabajan para complementarse desde sus propias características y cualidades.
2) Do you think your role contributes to society somehow? Why/Why not?
¿Crees que tu rol contribuye a la sociedad de alguna manera? ¿Por qué si/no?

Creo que los profesores somos una herramienta social muy importante, ya que creamos un vínculo que no es solo académico, sino que también un vínculo humano de formación valórica. Creo que los profesores somos agentes de cambio en la sociedad, sin dudas es un trabajo muy exigente que requiere de minucioso cuidado al momento de tratar con los estudiantes. Sin embargo, al momento de notar los cambios ocurridos en ellos, me doy cuenta de la importancia que tiene la educación hoy en día de nuestra sociedad.

Crear conciencia y hacer reflexionar a los estudiantes es más importante que hacerlos estudiar solo para adquirir conocimientos.

3) Do you think your profession has challenges and duties when it comes to social issues? Why/Why not? Which ones?
¿Crees que tu profesión tiene desafíos y responsabilidades con respecto a problemáticas sociales? ¿Por qué si/ por qué no? ¿Cuáles?
Tal como te mencioné anteriormente, el profesor tiene el deber de crear conciencia en sus alumnos, y dejar que ellos reflexionen acerca de las problemáticas sociales de Chile. Por ejemplo, siempre trato que se den cuenta de los problemas arraigados al machismo que afectan hoy en día a la sociedad chilena.
El por qué me siento responsable de esto tiene relación con cómo mi enseñanza fue desarrollada en mi escolaridad, la cual no estuvo enfocada en la reflexión de la contingencia nacional, en este caso, la revolución pingüina.

4) Do you consider gender as a barrier that differentiates students socially ? Why/Why not?
¿Consideras que el género es una barrera que diferencia socialmente? ¿Por qué si/no?

R: Sí, totalmente, ya que en base a la construcción social de la concepción de los roles de géneros, que tienen como base el machismo, se configura la interacción social en base a una jerarquía de poder que beneficia al hombre. Sin embargo, no hay que olvidar que el machismo afecta tanto a las mujeres como a los hombres, definiendo formas de comportamientos preestablecidos.
4.1) Do you have a plan or methodology to destroy that barrier? Please explain.
¿Tienes un plan o metodología para destruir esta barrera? Por favor explica.
Trato de ligar lo más posible los contenidos de lengua castellana con contingencia nacional, de modo que al aprender los contenidos puedan aplicarlos de distintas formas, expresando lo que ellos entienden al discutir sobre estos temas. Más ahora que temas como género, sexo y sexualidad se han ido desarrollando en base a la propia evolución social.

Central Note

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 15:11:07 UTC

Why it is important to study gender inequality into our national context?
According to the twelfth survey of Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Género, an 87% of chilean women feels discriminated. The highest levels of gender inequality are perceived by these women at work (88%), in politics (75%), in access to justice (73%), and in the sexual field (71%). Likewise, a 69% said that opportunities are not equal for men and for women. A 86% considers Chile a chauvinist country. If we look for gender inequality within education, according to DEMRE, 44 out of 163 national scores obtained in 2016 P.S.U were women, and in 2015, 7 out of 65.
Gender inequality in Chile exists in most of the daily life fields. One of the most important of these, and where is easily perceived, is education. It is for this reason, that we consider important to study gender inequalities within our national context. We consider as urgent the necessity to reach an educative system that does not discriminate, that enhance equality between capacities among children, that allows them to develop according to their talents and not being limited according to what they should be and do. To reach this is fundamental to produce a change in daily teaching practices, adding new and inclusive educative methods that pursue reflection about gender inequalities in the classroom. Educational psychology is an essential tool to give to the progress of teaching gender equality. Through researches and innovator teaching methods that this discipline gives to the teachers and all the responsible actors of carrying out this labour, the chances to improve statistics about gender inequality increase.

Read the complete survey in here: http://www.humanas.cl/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ENCUESTA-HUMANAS-PERCEPCIONES-DE-LAS-MUJERES-SOBRE-SU-SITUACI%C3%93N-Y-CONDICIONES-DE-VIDA-EN-CHILE-2017-PRENSA.pdf

Read the complete DEMRE statistics in here:
http://www.psu.demre.cl/estadisticas/documentos-2016-compendio-p2016

Helping Future Generations

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 16:16:51 UTC

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declares that access to a good education is important for getting out of poverty.

A person who receives a formal education is more likely to grow up healthy and have more opportunities for employment. This increases their chance of raising healthy children and supporting them to also get an education. "When all students, both male and female, have equal access to educational opportunities, the results impact future generations." Because providing more equal and greater educational opportunities for students begins in the classroom and with the teacher. A strong teacher is one who treats students fairly and creates an environment in which conditions enable students to feel equally able to take part the class and interactions.

Teachers' actions "can create the appearance of gender bias through unintentional, nonverbal actions. The first step to correcting this problem is to organize your classroom in a way that makes all students feel equal"
To avoid a bias conception in the classroom we will present the following tips or steps:

To establish rules: in order to maintain an ambiance of equality, the teacher can include the students to decide the rules. "It is important to include rules that deal with respecting students, respecting the teacher and participating in class"
Classroom setting plan: the order of the chairs and tables might promote participation in those shy students who barely interact with others.
Regulate expectations: teachers interaction with students influence the level of motivation they may have for their learning as, at the same time, can make that students react only by a positive reinforcement.

Information and quotes taken from:
VOA. (2017). Addressing Gender Equality with Teaching Strategies. [online] Available at: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/promoting-gender-equality-with-teaching-strategies/3986846.html [Accessed 13 Nov. 2017].

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 19:27:34 UTC

"Educación para la igualdad de género"

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 19:27:55 UTC

This is how is named the government project that looks for gender equality in the Chilean education during 2015 and 2018. According to this project, the implementation of actions to incorporate a gender perspective into the MINEDUC pending tasks, has as base the conviction that is possible to build a non sexist education, in which educative communities and its integrants recognize the value of the capacities and skills of girls and boys, young and adults into the different educative levels independently of their sex or gender identity.
Along with this, this actions looks for the equality in the exercise of rights; the construction of coexistence spaces free of discrimination and gender violence; for the inclusion of all identities and gender expressions, and sexual orientations. Through this actions that development and performance gaps.

We will be waiting for the completion of this project to analyze future statistics!

Look for the entire proyect in here:
http://www.mineduc.cl/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2017/01/CartillaUEG.pdf

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 19:29:30 UTC

"Would you care more if I was a panda?"

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 19:37:16 UTC

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 19:38:39 UTC

You're not you when you're hungry

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 19:45:30 UTC

Pizza Hut: The Flavor of Now.

Songs as a source of reflection

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-15 19:49:42 UTC

When it comes to reflect and learn, songs and videos can be a good tool to have fun while doing it.
"Chained to the rhythm" lets in evidence the way women's role is defined and how even women are not aware of this situation.
Let's break the chain, do not follow the rhythm!!

Justification of the chosen topic

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-16 12:20:00 UTC

As a group, we decided to choose this topic because we consider that it is a social issue as well as an educational issue that needs to be developed to its deepest side in order to reach to more integral and useful conclusion, that can be therefore optimally applied to the educational system in theory and practice in which we are going to work. Because of this, we also think that as we are going to face a new generation of students which is going to be more diverse in terms of gender and knowledge about the topic we need to be more aware and informed about it before starting our work life.

On the other hand, the national context of sexual policies is changing as the needs of the LGBTQ community are changing too. Thus, we as future teachers believe that understanding and providing the proper information for our national context regarding gender and sexual education are key elements that will open the gate of acceptance, inclusion and to avoid issues as LGBTQ discrimination by starting in the classroom.

In addition, we believe that in order to be integral teachers we should be informed to look towards the improvement of pedagogical methods and contents. In order for this to happen we think psychology can be a guide for us to develop adequate methodologies and personalities as people who are going to be continuously interacting with others who are aimed to learn from us not only content itself but also social skills. Therefore, to reach this improvement based on previous material, research is useful and helpful to allow and facilitate the progress of education in the field of inclusion of LGTBQ community. These reasons are fundamental for our decision to choose this topic as we want to contribute with this online magazine to inform people without distinction of age, gender, sex or social status to the understanding of the importance of the conception of gender in education and students’ educational process, supporting our ideas in reliable sources.

During the development of this magazine, we will base our information and publications on the different national and international sources in order to understand the different gender issues in education and society and attempt to come up with different proposes to help teachers and citizens in general in relation to education.

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-16 14:22:49 UTC

Interview - Raúl Pérez Hinojosa. Ciences teacher

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-16 18:57:50 UTC

The following questions will contribute to our formation as teachers and to the construction of our own identity as English teachers, and what to do or what methodology use to eliminate gender inequality.
The questions and answers are the following:
1. What does teaching means for you?
¿Qué significa el enseñar para ti?
A: " Enseñar es mostrar el mundo generando la conexión entre lo teórico y lo cotidiano , mostrar las posibilidades que nos rodean, desarrollando tanto habilidades cognitivas, como práticas. Para entregar una persona integral a la sociedad con competencias claras, valores y virtudes positivas para esta sociedad."

2. Do you think your role contributes to society somehow? Why/Why not?
¿Crees que tu rol contribuye a la sociedad de alguna manera? ¿Por qué si/no?
A: "Claro que sí contribuye a la sociedad, los docentes somos generadores de sueños para metas concretas, o incluso utópicas, pero quiénes somos para prohibir lo que debemos o no limitar del otro? Demos potenciar lo mejor del individuo."

3. Do you think your profession has challenges and duties when it comes to social issues? Why/Why not? Which ones?
A: "Sí, sí, muchos. Por ejemplo, dependiendo del tipo del establecimiento se podrían comentar diferentes problemáticas sociales. Desde mi experiencia considero que es más comprensible en el área municipal, ya que se recibe de todo tipo de estudiantes siendo la mayoría de ellos vulnerables, lo que hace que estos colegios tengan por lo tanto un alto porcentaje de vulnerabilidad. Algunas situaciones observables de problemáticas sociales serían la precariedad de vocabulario, falta de higiene, maltrato psicológico de sus apoderados, demasiado tiempo solos sin control de mayores responsables, falta de alimentación, poca motivación de sus apoderados a terminar algo o decirles lo bien que lo hacen, etc, por lo que nosotros como docentes tenemos muchas veces que cumplir con roles que no nos corresponden, o suplir estas faltas de alimentación y abrigo, lo que se realiza generalmente en silencio de otros pares, dirección o los mimos estudiantes para lograr rescatarlos e insertarlos como personas que contribuyan a este "bien común".

4) Do you consider gender as a barrier that differentiates students socially ? Why/Why not?
¿Consideras que el género es una barrera que diferencia socialmente? ¿Por qué si/no?
A: "Sí, porque lamentablemente la cultura machista tanto de hombres y mujeres junto con esta renovada postura feminista -la cual personalmente concibo como bien equívoca a los ideales "originales"-, que ha estado bastante en boga, has nada más que aportado a una sociedad super marcada en cuanto diferencia de género. No se trata de pelear con el otro género y disminuirlo, se trata de la búsqueda y establecimiento de contar con el mismo acceso a diferentes oportunidades. Creo que si bien tenemos habilidades distintas que nos individualizan y diferencian, no podemos dejar ni menos pisotear los derechos y deberes que tenemos como individuales independiente del género. "

4. 1) Do you have a plan or methodology to destroy that barrier? Please explain.
A: "Primero que todo, reconozco que en general es muy difícil dejar de lado el conocimiento o costumbre precia de que "las mujeres son mejores en actividades delicadas, por así decirlo, y que los hombre son mejores en actividades no se, deportivas o numéricas" por ejemplo. Así que para mi esto es un reto de cada día que consiste en fortalecer que todos somos distintos, pero que compartimos espacios comunes, que los problemas o diferencias deben solucionados en conjunto, independiente de la índole de que estos se traten. Hay que hacerles entender que no hay un por qué que justifique desigualdad de género."

Songs as a source of reflection and learning

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-17 01:57:58 UTC

"Til it happens to you" shows the reality of the universities in the USA; including gender and sexual orientation issues such as sexual abuses and bullying.

Do you think that what this video shows happens in your country?

WARNING: the video shows explicit violence content

Inclusive Activities

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-17 02:06:00 UTC

As shown in the following video, it is important to plan activities that suit the age of the target audience, more important for little children because the first learnings and experiences build patterns of interaction and ideals for their rest of their lives. So, in order to apply gender inclusive and teaching content we offer some ideas:

To show students a big amount of toys and ask them which one is their favourite. This activity is aimed to psychologically evaluate students perception and inner thoughts regarding gender differentiation so the teacher can use that to analyse how children have been raised and established gender qualities by their parents.
To write in a big paper characteristics that they think most of girls and boys have. This would be the first step and material for the teacher to explain that stigmatization of genders is not something natural but imposed instead.
To make students define their family members into characteristics that they consider as good or bad. This activity is aimed to let students see that a woman or their mothers are and can be strong and beautiful at the same time as well as their fathers and that there is nothing wrong with that.

After watching the video, do you consider that students are reacting positively to gender education? Do you think that they are correctly using the new information? Let us know your answers below.

Important vocabulary

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-17 02:54:39 UTC

Along this magazine, a series of words are going to be very often used, so, in case you need you can check them here:

bias – n. a tendency to believe that some people, ideas, etc., are better than others that usually results in treating some people unfairly

discipline – n. control that is gained by requiring that rules or orders be obeyed and punishing bad behavior

gender – n. the state of being male or female

impact – v. to have a strong and often bad effect on something or someone)

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-17 03:02:04 UTC

¡¡Careful!!, sexism kills.

School and Teachers actions matter!

gorditosybonitos — 2017-11-17 03:05:04 UTC

To fight against a sexist education, school's authorities and teachers play a fundamental role. It is important that every person in the educational system is well trained to teach and show a good example to children and families. The first step is that everyone acknowledges the naturalisation of gender inequalities so as to start avoiding biased treatments in the classrooms. After the notion of equality and diversity is set, more concrete actions need to be taken, such as including the families and planning new methodologies and strategies that are based on gender respect, teaching and support
In some cases, the principal interactions of students are not positively influential for them, affecting their self-esteem and self-concept producing a deficient academic performance. When cases like this one are found in schools, teachers have the role and chance to change that patterns. If they show interest, conduct a research and learning disabilities tests if needed children would start perceiving and experiencing a new way of interaction that may start slowly making the child progress in terms of academic responses, social and individual perception and socialisation.