GENDER STEREOTYPES AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: FROM FAMILY CONTEXT TO GAME DEVELOPMENT

The aim of this research is to determine gender stereotypes in 3-and 4-year-old students in pre-school education, considering the relationship between the family and the educational environment, specifically through play. Using a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology, a study was carried out with 16 girls and boys, considering for the same pupils the family and educational context, according to the perception of the participants themselves. In this sense, and using four instruments to collect information, we carried out an analysis of the gender differences in the iconographic discourses of the pupils, their behaviour and relationships, and their development of play. The results show that stereotypes in the family environment are reproduced in pupils' playing. In this sense, the school continues to have a pending task as a truly co-educational space.