Texto escolar, imágenes y estereotipos étnicos en inicial II.

Abstract

The school textbook is a didactic instrument that is being used more frequently in Early Childhood Education, for this reason it is important that its content is adequate, taking into account that infants learn through images, it is essential that they are correctly characterized. For this reason, this research aims to analyze the ethnic stereotypes present in the images of the Initial II school textbook and what reproduces social inequality, which has made it possible to identify the prejudices and stereotypes that exist about the different ethnic groups of the country. This problem began in a Children's Center located in the Valle de los Chillos, in which the use of the school text in the classroom of Initial II was very constant for the development of the topics, thus evidencing the different ethnic stereotypes that are reflected in the images of the school text, for the elaboration of this research a mixed methodology was used which allowed us to obtain quantitative and qualitative data from the images present, using as data collection instruments a table that quantifies and classifies the illustrations by gender and group ethnicity, also a content sheet that allowed the description and analysis of both denotative content and connotative content, resulting in a high presence of ethnic stereotypes of the mestizo and indigenous, since the ignorance of their cultural identities is evident diverse, there is also a lack of representation of Afro-Ecuadorian people.