Training for gender equity: an experience through choreographies in Early Childhood Education
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INTRODUCTION. In Early Childhood Education, the work on the so-called cross-cutting themes takes on special relevance because they allow the reinforcement of students’ skills in different areas, which contribute to the adequate development during Primary Education. The contents of the subject “Musical processes in Early Childhood Education”, of the 3rd year of the Early Childhood Education Teacher’s Degree, allow the work on these issues, specifically, the choreographies. They can be used as playful tools that guarantee not only the work of basic motor skills, but also equity, civic and moral education…, due to the content of the songs that can be used for choreographic productions. In view of this, the objective of the experience focused on converting the choreographies into working tools of transversal themes and not only motor skills.
METHODOLOGY. We started by organizing the class-group as a discussion group, dealing with the considerations of their female family figures regarding what they expect of them as women, and, after the auditions, analyzing those ideas. Later, they were divided into groups to prepare choreographies with songs freely selected by each group; and, finally, the choreographies performed were analyzed to get some feedback between the different groups. The choreographies had to include basic motor skills as main work elements.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The data collected through the discussion groups, with the analysis of the choreographies and analyzing the individual impressions collected in the final Dossier of the subject, show that not all the groups performed choreographies with songs that respect women and did not pose careful choreographies regarding basic motor skills.
CONCLUSIONS. They can be reduced to two: the students considered it necessary to expand their knowledge in order to develop adequate mechanisms for the selection of the repertoire in accordance with the transversal themes and they considered it necessary to extend the time of musical training to be able to handle it as a working tool in all areas of the curriculum of Early Childhood Education.