La coeducación en la construcción de masculinidades: un análisis en estudiantes de los últimos ciclos de la carrera de Educación Básica de la Universidad de Cuenca, período septiembre 2023 -febrero 2024

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze perceptions and experiences regarding coeducation and masculinities among students in the final cycles of the Basic Education program at the University of Cuenca during the period from September 2023 to February 2024. The premise is based on the historical androcentric logic upon which the educational system has been built, which invisibilizes other ways of being and conceiving the world. The inclusion of women in formal education alone has not guaranteed equal participation conditions. Forms of harassment, discrimination, and gender-based violence persist. In response to this issue, coeducation is proposed as a model that seeks to identify and transform dynamics that reproduce inequalities, promoting safe spaces and horizontal relationships between genders. Simultaneously, it is important to reconsider masculinities to flexibilize mandates that are oppressive not only for women but also for men themselves. This qualitative and exploratory research aims to conduct semi-structured interviews and focus groups with students enrolled in the 9th and 10th cycles. Its objective is to understand the perceptions and experiences of these future teachers, both in their university training processes and in their pre-professional practices in schools, to assess how these spaces reproduce or contribute to changing the logics of the sex-gender system. The results will make visible the factors that reinforce stereotypes of hegemonic masculinity in the participants, as well as the opportunities and strategies that have allowed redefining masculinities towards more equitable and equal forms of relationship between genders in the educational context.