A Learning Experience of the Gender Perspective in English Teaching Contexts

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2017-01-01

Aprendizajes de la perspectiva de género en los escenarios para la enseñanza del inglés

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English teachers, gender and foreign language education, language teacher education, learning, participation (en)
aprendizajes, educación de docentes de inglés, género y educación en lengua extranjera, participación, profesores de inglés (es)

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Claudia Patricia Mojica Universidad de Los Andes
Harold Castañeda-Peña Universidad Distrital Francisco Josè de Caldas

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Eighteen Colombian English teachers participated in a course with an emphasis on gender and foreign language teaching in a Master’s program in Bogotá. This text describes the design, implementation, and the learning in this educational experience. The analysis of the course was based on a view of learning as a process of participation rooted in the praxis of English teachers’ classrooms. This experience reveals that gender is a relevant category in the frame of English language teacher education as it provides teachers with tools from a broader social and educational perspective. This reflection also leads to implications for teachers’ practices with a gender perspective.

Dieciocho profesores de inglés participaron en un curso con énfasis en género y la enseñanza de lengua extranjera, en el marco de un programa de maestría en Bogotá. Este texto describe el diseño, la implementación y los aprendizajes que surgen en esta experiencia educativa. El análisis del curso se basa en una comprensión del aprendizaje como el resultado de un proceso de participación en la práctica de la enseñanza de los docentes. Esta experiencia revela que género es una categoría importante en el marco de la educación de la enseñanza del inglés, por cuanto aporta elementos desde una perspectiva social y educativa. Esta reflexión revela algunas implicaciones para la práctica de docentes sensibles a la categoría género.

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