Classroom Management and Gender: Analysis and Educational Proposal on Hegemonic Masculinity within the Classroom.

Abstract

[eng] Current societies are deeply influenced by patriarchal ideas that determine women’s position in it. Hegemonic masculinity is a concept representative of it, and it affects every sphere of both men and women’s identities. Education and masculinity as intertwined concepts have been analysed from a wide range of perspectives, but scholars such as Rom and Pam Gilbert, Díez and Brantlinger and Danforth have focused specifically on the implications of hegemonic masculinity in classroom management. Given that the role of education around this conflict is crucial to solve to some extent the situation, this dissertation will examine the role of the educational system around hegemonic masculinity within the classroom and the affectation that these disruptive students have in the management of said specific environment. Furthermore, a didactic proposal based on the necessity to create safe havens for students in which they can express their true identities is included with a set of activities that could help improve this reality in schools. It will be argued that the educational system, besides instructing and guiding students on matters such as values and manners, is indispensable in the deconstruction of patriarchal ideas among society