Question of Coeducation ", within the activities organized by the Department of Women |
Roque Baños Center hosted a talk yesterday and the presentation of the book "Equality is also learned.
Question of Coeducation 'from the hands of its author Maria Elena Simón Rodríguez.
One of the activities in commemoration of International Women's Day, organized by the Department of Women.
The event was attended by several dozen people and the council of Women Fuensanta Olivares presented to the writer and acknowledged their presence and, above all, "the fact of sharing your work with us and us."
The writer said the book has two key words in the title that is equality and coeducation, besides the word 'also'.
"At the moment we see both parents, as teachers the idea that equality should not teach because they already have and therefore no one is very active in teaching it, so you'll never get out of inequality, although appearance before the law, women here and now we have inequality of right, but in practice and in life have much inequality of opportunity, treatment and conditions. "
This way, Mary Helen Simon believes that "we must strive, in our education system, families and the overall system to work against this inequality, that coeducation would call that one of the main purposes of education of children and Children learn to be equality between human beings, people with sex and different body, but as equal as full human beings and not as 'orange socks' "he said.
To the writer "is the path of change that began over 80 years in Spain in everyday life and knowledge of men and women."
Mary Helena says that "there is not no country that treats equally to men and women, so it still needed the celebration of International Women's Day to talk about them, their work, publications, their work and remember equality is a journey begun but not finished.
In this work, "also said it is very important the role of the media and highlighting the progress of women and not give much speaker to everything that goes against equality, silence the voices that are against this because it goes against democracy "
Helena María Simón Rodríguez is a graduate in Modern Languages ​​and is currently a Trainer feminist gender analyst and writer.
For more than half his life has been a teacher at the secondary schools and high school years he combined work with the self and belonging to groups.
Since 1980, he co-founded the Feminario Alicante (group study and reflection on the status of women), develops training and dissemination tasks of the Co-education, equality between men and women, non-sexist language and approach Gender, working as a teacher or an expert in many different instances (Unions, Equality Institutions, Schools and Teaching, European projects or educational innovation, municipalities, universities, educational institutions, youth councils, NGOs.) of different countries and places and turning a very diverse audience.
It is co-author of 14 books and author groups of articles and papers in journals and publications (over fifty).
He has also developed several guidelines for institutions of Alicante, Cantabria and Mexico, among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla