Análisis de caso: los contenidos gráficos y textuales del libro de estudios sociales de cuarto año de Educación General Básica y su relación con la reproducción de la desigualdad de género.

Abstract

The present research focuses exclusively on the Social Studies’ book. The objective is to analyze the textual and graphic contents of the Social Studies area of 4th EGB in relation to gender reproduction. This thesis is organized by two chapters. The first covers categories such as: ideological reproduction and its relationship with the text, discourse, curriculum, and content. The second chapter refers to topics such as: illustrations, gender and its relationship with images, androcentric vision, the role of gender and reproduction. The methodology to categorize the textual contents was to determine what contents exist in the school text, in this case they are: universal, regional, civic and local. On the other hand, for the textual contents, all the illustrations are selected in relation to gender (man and woman) to establish which of these has greater participation and if this can generate the reproduction process. With the textual contents’ analysis, we can know how they are hierarchical with each other; therefore, the predominant knowledge is regional. Regarding the graphic content in relation to gender, the illustrations have a predominance towards men; For this reason, the women’s roles participation is different from the opposite gender. Aware of this reality, it is concluded that the discourse transmitted by the book is related to a social group, and in turn preserves an ideology focused on gender inequality.