Training teachers to teach the plurality of masculinity

Abstract

The transformations that feminisms and the LGBT+ movement have brought to society seem to displace some boys, who tend – almost as a reaction – to reproduce macho, patriarchal and aggressive modes of masculinity, often discriminating and victimising others. In particular, at school, the peer group seems to constitute a 'community of practice' that tends to reinforce a traditional representation of masculinity, in the absence of alternative and more inclusive cultural models. With regard to this, a complex gender education intervention seems desirable, mainly addressed to males in the age of development, with respect to which specific initial and in-service training of teachers is necessary, in order to make them aware of the relational dynamics between students, between teachers, between teachers and students.