How to teach for equality, the debate opened by the Center for Gender Studies
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Center for Gender Studies of Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (CEG-INTEC) held its VIII Dominican Conference on Gender Studies: "Educating for Equality", on November 6 and 7, at the Osvaldo García de la Concha auditorium of the institution.
The Conference is a space for academic debate on the role of education in changing gender relations and their expression in political, ideological, cultural and socio-economic terms. It was sponsored by the Ministry of Education, the Philip Morris Dominicana company and the Social Policy Cabinet of the Vice Presidency of the Republic.
Its objective is to strengthen the debate on gender policies in the field of education, precisely at this time, in which great challenges are expressed to the Dominican educational policies, in the face of the needs of transformations in the classrooms and in the interconnection between them. and families.
The lectures were given by specialists in education for equality, coeducation and lay education. 13 papers were organized, organized in five panels:
1) Public Policies in Education, foundations for equality
2) Equality in Education, a look from the Academy
3) Contribution of Art for Educational Transformation
4) On the edge of what has been lived, Case Studies in the Educational System
5) Challenges of education for the construction of an egalitarian society, in which the results of research and local experiences on the participation of teachers, girls, boys and adolescents and the role of the school in socialization processes will be presented. .
Main topics
In the opening ceremony the Magisterial Conference "Coeducation for Equality" was held, dictated by the Spanish author María Elena Simón, who has a degree in Modern Philology, feminist trainer, gender analyst and author of the books: "Vital Democracy: Women and men towards full citizenship "," Daughters of Equality, heirs of injustice "and" Equality is also learned: A question of coeducation ". In addition, she is the co-author of 17 collective books and columnist and speaker in journals and specialized publications.
The guest lecturer of the second day was the sociologist Argelia Tejada, who spoke on the theme: "Gender Equality: The Need for a State and a Lay Public Education". Dr. Tejada is a Dominican resident in the United States. He studied the Bachelor of Education in Siena Heights University, Michigan, with several Masters in the area and a Doctorate in Quantitative and Conflict Sociology, from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. From the 2010 maintains the blog-For a Dominican Republic Lay-and from the 2012 column Humanism and Science in the digital newspaper Accent. She is co-founder of the 2012 of the Forum for a Lay State "Eugenio María de Hostos".
The closing ceremony featured an expression of Dominican art with the participation of Xiomara Fortuna.