El sexismo expresado en el juego libre en niños y niñas de 4 a 5 años.

Abstract

This research consists of a case analysis on how sexism is reproduced in free play in an institution in the city of Quito. Sexism is considered as attitudes and behaviors of inferiority, discrimination, underestimation towards the opposite sex. The problem is defined in the interaction of boys and girls in their free games, where they separate girls from the activities that boys carry out, managing to identify the reproduction of sexist behaviors in their socialization. In the written theoretical framework, three main categories are contextualized: sexism, free play and the characteristics of children from 4 to 5 years old, which are specifically defined with the help of the bibliographic search of texts, articles and others. For this research, the ethnographic and qualitative method was used, which will understand and describe the relevant information regarding the behaviors carried out in the socialization of boys and girls in their free games, three techniques were used to obtain the data: participant observation, the bibliographic search and the interview with the director and teacher of the educational center, with the help of a field diary and a questionnaire collecting relevant information. As findings, it was determined that children reproduce sexist behaviors when playing, which are hostile, benevolent and ambivalent. Through free games, infants assume roles assigned by adults as male or female, and these in turn strengthen the sexist attitudes expressed in boys and girls.