DO WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT GENDER IN SCHOOL OR NOT?

Abstract

One of the goals of those who advocate social equality in the educational system is inclusive schooling. Recognizing the right to education of all people, there are still many voices that claim the need to think, study, propose and bet on new ways of understanding and focusing on the education of the diversity of students. Thus, the idea of an inclusive school emerges. This current aims to go beyond the idea of integration, prevalent in Spanish legislation, involving a restructuring of schools to meet the needs of all students. It is important to note that the need for identity and, by extension, for political representation, is understood as a basic need and therefore must be considered in the educational field in order to avoid any form of segregation within the classroom. I defend the need to equally attend to the different ways of being, of defining and identifying ourselves, as an essential part of these diversities. Through the analysis of the paradox of female identity, gender boundaries and their consequences on agency within feminism, I propose an extension of the concept of inclusive education with the aim of taking it a step further by talking about a truly equitable, critical and democratic education.