Education and gender. Training social educators/Educación y género. Formación de los educadores y educadoras sociales/Educacao e genero. Formacao dos educadores e educadoras sociais

• Published in: Pedagogía social 2014-01, Vol.23, p.95
• Main Authors: Bas-Pena, Encarna, Perez-de-Guzman, Victoria, Vargas-Vergara, Montserrat
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• ISSN: 1139-1723
• DOI: 10.7179/PSRI_2014.23.05

From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights international organizations have launched initiatives to achieve men and women equality and withstand all forms of discrimination and violence. This paper presents the research on gender training of students in Spanish universities that taught the Degree in Social Education. It was conducted in 36 universities (29 public and 7 private). We used a multi-method perspective. We performed a deep analysis of the degree programme through the teaching guides for all courses, in order to identify the presence of gender related areas in specific subjects and in those that include it transversely. We have also set up an on-line questionnaire for 4th year students (213 people), in order to have their opinion on the gender training received throughout their careers. We detected the weak presence, in the degree programmes, of specific subjects related to these topics. Most of the current focus is on gender equality / inequality, being residual the inclusion / exclusion and violence concepts. The subjects that transversely teach it are mostly mandatory and basic. The results extracted from the questionnaire include that students do received little training on these topics. While they give great importance to gender training. They show great unawareness about their right to receive such training and in addition be able to claim it. As well as not having knowledge of the Equality Plan in their university. A high percentage of respondents declared using sexist language, but it is still higher the percentage of students who said that teachers use it in their classes. KEYWORDS: Gender; Gender Equality; Violence; Social Education; Higher Education; Gender Instruction. A partir de la Declaracion Universal de los Derechos Humanos los organismos internacionales han puesto en marcha iniciativas para conseguir la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres, y luchar contra todo tipo de discriminacion y violencia. Este articulo presenta la investigacion realizada sobre la formacion en genero del alumnado de las universidades espanolas, en las que se imparte el titulo de Grado en Educacion Social. Se ha llevado a cabo en 36 universidades (29 publicas y 7 privadas). Hemos utilizado una perspectiva multimetodo. Se ha realizado un analisis de contenido de los planes de estudio, a traves de las guias docentes de todos los cursos, con objeto de identificar la presencia de las tematicas relacionadas con el genero, tanto en asignaturas especificas como e