Last week, as part of the March 8th celebrations against inequality, discrimination and violence, and for an education free of sexism, the CCOO Teaching Federation presented the book 'Gender and coeducation, by Carmen Heredero'Its author has been Secretary for Women and Equality of this Federation and currently represents it on the State School Council.
The work describes the evolution of female education in Spain from the Enlightenment to the present dayIt analyzes the current education system and the elements of discrimination against women that it still maintains, questions the so-called female academic success, since the education system does not combat gender stereotypes and guides boys and girls to the labor market in a stereotypical way, and It proposes a series of necessary measures and changes that must be incorporated in all educational centers with the aim of universalizing coeducation..
This is a book that the Teaching Federation wants to make available to teachers and the entire educational community, because, as Marina Subirats, who wrote its prologue, says, it is “A book that arrives just in time, when we most need to know how to act, what to do, and in what direction to move.A book for new times in which women are no longer the uninvited guests in knowledge and culture.”
Following this publication, the spokesperson for Education of IU-Verdes in Cieza, José Monteagudo, has assessed Positive measures such as the reinstatement of civic education as a universal subject, the revision of teaching materials to avoid sexism, and the promotion of mixed-gender schools and coeducation, all of them contained in the draft amendment to the LOE recently approved by the Council of Ministers.
However, The spokesperson regrets that “they will not see the light of day” and calls for greater forcefulness in incorporating initiatives that move towards equal education."Co-education is an essential value, which has brought great advances to female education, enabling the same curriculum for boys and girls and the opportunity to practice coexistence and respect between the sexes and the resolution of conflicts that may arise between them."
Finally, Monteagudo emphasized that “Teacher training and the incorporation of human and material resources in schools for widespread co-educational practice require a level of effort that educational authorities are not currently making.”.