Developing Feminist Consciousness for Social Change with Multimodal Educational Artifacts from Media Culture

Rocío Jiménez Cortés

doi:10.14198/fem.30543

Autores/as

Rocío Jiménez Cortés Universidad de Sevilla, España https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1622-5805

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.30543

Palabras clave:

concienciación, feminismo, formación docente, psicología educativa, pedagogía crítica, cambio social, artefactos, educación superior, educación mediática, igualdad de género

Resumen

Desarrollar la conciencia feminista es clave para formar una ciudadanía crítica. También es crucial para la formación de futuros/as educadores/as. La transformación social hacia un mundo más igualitario requiere el desarrollo de esta conciencia. El objetivo general de este estudio es comprender el proceso de concienciación feminista mediante la aplicación de constructos teóricos derivados de la intersección de la teoría sociocultural y feminista. Llevamos a cabo un estudio feminista transformador, de métodos mixtos y concurrente con 637 participantes (191 hombres y 446 mujeres) que son estudiantes de universidades españolas de titulaciones de ciencias de la educación. Cuantitativamente, utilizamos una novedosa medida de la conciencia feminista que ha demostrado ser válida y fiable para establecer el nivel de concienciación y describir sus características. Esta medida es una escala tipo Likert de 30 ítems. De acuerdo con la teoría sociocultural y feminista, el instrumento contiene cuatro factores que corresponden a procesos de formación de la conciencia relacionados con la internalización de herramientas y artefactos culturales (discursos, valores, símbolos, y representaciones). Cualitativamente, 54 mujeres, futuras educadoras en formación, participaron en actividades dialógicas con artefactos multimodales de la cultura mediática a modo de recursos educativos. Estas actividades nos permitieron explorar la formación de la conciencia feminista. Los resultados identifican y caracterizan los procesos involucrados en el desarrollo de la conciencia feminista desde una perspectiva sociocultural. Los resultados también indican diferencias estadísticamente significativas en el nivel de conciencia feminista desarrollado por hombres y mujeres. Las actividades nos ayudan a ilustrar cualitativamente cómo se manifiesta la conciencia feminista en el discurso, y argumentamos la importancia de la formación en pensamiento crítico a nivel universitario a la luz de la investigación actual. La exploración de la conciencia feminista de las mujeres con base en su orientación sexual revela diferencias. Las mujeres lesbianas y bisexuales muestran un mayor nivel de conciencia feminista que las mujeres heterosexuales.

Financiación

This research has been carried out within the framework of the project «FREEDOM. Feminist Critical Literacy in Initial Teacher Training to Address the Multimodal Discourses of Media Culture and the Metaverse» (PID2022-141057OB-I00), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It has been approved by the Experimentation Ethics Committee of the University of Malaga (CEUMA) with code 147-2023-H, which includes informed consent and a confidentiality agreement.

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