Presencia de estereotipos de género durante el juego en educación inicial

Abstract

This research of monographic type investigates the gender stereotypes that arise during play at an early educational level. This evidences the importance as long as playing contributes to the autonomy development, imagination, and creativity. For this reason, therefore the aim of this work was to analyze the influence of gender stereotypes during play in the integral development of children in early education. This monograph is developed with a qualitative approach, using a bibliographic and descriptive documentary research which allows detailing the two research categories focused on gender stereotypes and play in children from 3 to 5 years old. Moreover, a field work was performed in six elementary schools in urban and rural sectors of Cuenca and Nabon, districts in Azuay province, where a semi-structured observation form was applied in order to collect information according to the object of study Finally, the results show that gender stereotypes observed through imitated attitudes and behaviors, mostly come from home and are reinforced by some female teachers; which is why, their reproduction is naturalized in children through activities traditionally associated to men and women. All of this is accompanied by an indifferent attitude of teachers besides some attitudes in these professional people that could lead to gender violence from early ages.