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The Department of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families, and Equality, through the Andalusian Women’s Institute (IAM), has launched a training workshop aimed at Primary Education students from the University of Seville that promotes equality through stories. The Maria Zambrano Documentation Center, attached to the IAM, in collaboration with the Faculty of Education Sciences of Seville, promotes this activity in which 200 students participate under the title ‘What are you telling me?’. The workshops started in February and will continue until April.
The Minister of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families, and Equality, Loles López, has emphasized «the importance of promoting equality, inclusion, respect, diversity, and good treatment in future Primary Education teachers for the construction of a fairer, more equal society free from violence against girls and women.» In this sense, she has highlighted that «coeducation is a fundamental tool for the integral development of girls and boys without gender constraints, and therefore, it is key for future teachers to incorporate all these values.»
López has recalled that «the Andalusian Women’s Institute works closely with public universities in Andalusia; they are part of the Scientific Committee of the Andalusian Coeducation Congress, which was held on January 27 and 28 in Córdoba this year. This meeting is attended by both teachers and university students in the Education field, providing tools to work on coeducation or education in equality in Andalusian classrooms.
Specifically, ‘What are you telling me?’ is being carried out with second-year university students in the Education degree who are enrolled in the subject ‘Methodology of Educational Research and Attention to Diversity’, addressing coeducation and the prevention of gender-based violence in their contents. A total of 200 students, divided into groups of 25 students, attend this workshop for eight sessions.
During the training, which is being well received by both students and teachers, stereotypes and gender roles are addressed through stories, keys are provided to analyze egalitarian values in these texts, and examples of stories that convey more inclusive values are also presented. To do this, the funds of the Maria Zambrano Documentation Center of the Andalusian Women’s Institute, specialized in women and gender, are used to search, compile, disseminate, and make information and documentation related to this subject available to all users and entities that require it.
This workshop has also been conducted with students from the Early Childhood Education vocational training program at the IES Salvador Távora in Seville during three days in January, with a group of 25 students in attendance.