The present study makes an exhaustive review of the conditions and challenges faced by society to transform the school into a truly inclusive, coeducational, and democratic space. It proposes a theoretical model, of a bottom-up nature, to achieve gender equality in the school environment, giving special importance to teacher training. This study evaluates the training in gender equality and coeducation that students with degrees related to teaching are receiving. An analysis is conducted of the presence of attitudes that support the gender/sex system and the identification of relevant female references in a sample of 452 students in the Degree in Primary Education or the University Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education, Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching (MUPES). For the collection of information, an ad hoc questionnaire was used that contemplates formative and cultural aspects, together with the Inventory of Ambivalent Sexism (ASI), the Attitudes of Heterosexuals toward Homosexuals (HATH), and the Women in History (WH) scales. Among the main results, the important lack of training in aspects related to gender equality and coeducation, as well as a general lack of knowledge of historical female references, stands out. It can be concluded that, at present, teacher training is still in the early stages of the proposed model.

Este artículo presenta una revisión teórica sobre las diversidades sexuales y de género, así como su abordaje en el contexto educativo; para ello, ahonda en la pluralidad de identidades como valor para la construcción de espacios inclusivos y coeducativos. A partir de las propuestas conceptuales de varios autores, centra su interés en la conceptualización de estas cuestiones, y comprende las dimensiones de la identidad como una cuestión de diversidad y la expresión de la identidad como un espectro. Se incluye la reflexión y el análisis crítico del sistema sexo/género, generando un modelo teórico que integra ambos enfoques. El trabajo concluye con la propuesta de un modelo de coeducación que se sustenta en el diagnóstico de la cultura de género, en la profundización en la epistemología feminista y disciplinar, y en la formación del profesorado en materia de igualdad de género y diversidades sexuales.

This essay tries to answer the following question: is it possible the integration of apparently excluding or contradictory conceptions in the construction of the theory of adult education (AE)? We assume that there is a need for the professionals in charge of adult education to have a theoretical framework of reference that guides them in their practice, and helps them in the development of their own identity as professionals. However, the contributions of different schools of thought have tended to be contradictory or mutually excluding, hindering the development of the theory. Following the objectives of knowledge of the theory of education, we analyze some key concepts that have centered the discussions on the field of study of the AE over the past four decades. For this analysis, we create a dialectical interaction between the humanistic, critical, and postmoderm educational thoughts through some of their most representative authors and around those concepts. In this way, it is shown how it is possible to reconsider the AE from an integrative perspective, although with conceptual and ideological nuances that, far from being an obstacle, enrich the theory and reflect the diversity of the same social agents.

Partiendo de los supuestos teóricos de la psicología cultural y la socialización lingüística, y siguiendo un enfoque etnográfico, este trabajo ofrece (a) un estudio que explica el proceso de escolarización de dos estudiantes recién llegados a España y un alumno dominicano recién llegado al grupo, pero no al colegio; y (b) un marco teórico como forma dinámica de analizar las instituciones educativas, a través del cual hemos identificado prácticas verticales y prácticas horizontales. Este estudio aporta un análisis del comportamiento social de los estudiantes, entendiéndolo como un proceso dinámico en el que las acciones de cada persona son el resultado de la interacción entre contexto y comportamiento individual, destacando la agencia y el poder transformador de un individuo dentro de una comunidad.