Diversity and gender. Art installations for symbolic play in early childhood education.

Instalaciones artísticas para el juego simbólico en la educación infantil.

Abstract

Among the functions of educating is the obligation to promote intellectual faculties, teachers also have the duty to promote issues related to morality and affectivity of people in accordance with the culture and the norms of coexistence of the community. society to which we belong. Art education is an ideal space for social claim, for the expression and manifestation of ideas, to proclaim the thoughts and feelings of people. We highlight sexual and gender diversity as an argument to be implemented in the classroom through coeducation. Promoting them and giving them a voice will contribute to awareness and respect for people, freedom and social justice. From the Faculty of Teaching, Infant Education Degree, of the University of Valencia, campus d'Ontinyent, we have worked on this theme through artistic installations, inspired, among others, by the story of “Cloe”, an eight-year-old transgender girl. The stage of early childhood education is an ideal space to investigate these sensitivities and in which future teachers must be attentive. The Valencian Community, in Spain, is a benchmark on the educational impulse on issues concerning sexual and gender diversity through different institutions, both political as well as educational. From the infantile, primary and secondary levels, in addition to the university.