Education in Gender Times. Considerations for a Non-Sexist and Non-Genderist Education

Abstract

This article analyses the way in which the Chilean educational system has reacted both to recent socio-educational debates and to the transformations that society is experiencing in terms of gender, sexuality and family. Studies show how changes have taken place in these areas in society, but not in the educational system, where alternative family forms are invisible and restrictive visions of gender, youth sexuality and sexual diversity predominate, probably due to the lack of training that teachers themselves identify in these subjects. The article suggests carrying out specific studies with teachers and complementing the conceptual and investigative framework applied to non-sexist education with a non-genderist approach, incorporating sexual dissidence, emerging family forms and other gender-related aspects, not hitherto considered in approaches to research.