The gender perspective in initial teacher training in Chilean Physical Education

Abstract

The aim of this work is to provide a current view on initial teacher training in Chilean physical education from a gender perspective, taking as references the participation of students and the development of this perspective in the pedagogical training of future teachers. The study has used the descriptive analysis of secondary data and the analysis of documentary sources, such as databases, institutional reports, theoretical and methodological proposals, and national and international research. The work has identified that in Chile there is a relevant under-representation of women in studies of physical education pedagogy; that gender stereotypes continue to be reproduced; that no actions are identified to incorporate, treat and evaluate the gender perspective in this training, as it is the case with the inclusion of this approach in curricula and that at the research and methodological level, qualitative orientations predominate. Gender studies in the field of initial training of physical education teachers in this country are shown to be an open field of work, both at the level of the object of study and in the theoretical and methodological approaches, being at the same time an area that needs real transference by the academic and political actions identified in the literature.