Analysis of the training on equality, coeducation and gender in the Degree of Social Education

Abstract

Since the Organic Law 1/2004, of March 22, December 28, on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence, was approved in Spain, Universities must promote training, teaching and research in gender equality and not discrimination. This article analyzes the training that students of the Social Education degree receive on equality, gender and/or coeducation. For this, qualitative research has been carried out in which the study plans of the 37 Spanish universities that offer it have been examined and the 1,412 teaching guides of the subjects of all the courses have been studied. In addition, quantitative research has been carried out with a sample of 82 students in the 4th year of social education from the two universities of Valencia that offer these studies. The results show that there is a lack of training on issues of equality, gender and/or coeducation in the degree of social education, since these terms are only found in 29 of all the teaching guides examined, and the students perceive that they have received little or none. training in these subjects, although he considers it necessary both for carrying out his curricular internships and for his professional future.