The Construction of Cultural and Gender Identity in Children, Adolescents and Young People

Belkis Luisa Aranda Cintra

doi:10.11648/j.ijecs.20180303.11

Abstract

The construction of cultural and gender identity in children, adolescents and young people takes the form of learning based on a broad cultural conception, taking into account all the opportunities of school life, not in learning limited to the passive and decontextualized transmission of information in the classes, with an insufficient use of the educational action of the educator. For a successful performance of new generations, since education in the various facets of life, is derived their preparation for love and conscious sexuality. Consequently, they develop responsible and enriching sexual relations with the couple properly selected to form, if so they want a stable and happy family that, in turn, exerts a beneficial influence on the happiness of society as a whole. In this article are based some considerations on the construction of the cultural and gender identity of children, adolescents and young people.

Highlights

IntroductionThe construction of the cultural and gender identity has as its mechanism the significant learning, a process that integrates the assimilation, internalization and externalization of the different contents of the family and community school culture
The concepts of culture and gender have been the object of study of the modern social sciences conditioned by the global and multifaceted character that they reach in the current conditions, becoming the most important criteria for the development of the economic, political and spiritual life of society.The construction of the cultural and gender identity has as its mechanism the significant learning, a process that integrates the assimilation, internalization and externalization of the different contents of the family and community school culture
In a 97.9% of children, adolescents and young people appear behaviors linked with the culture of their framework but they are more emphatic in art manifestation

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Introduction

The construction of the cultural and gender identity has as its mechanism the significant learning, a process that integrates the assimilation, internalization and externalization of the different contents of the family and community school culture. Identity is built on the knowledge that children, adolescents and young people have of themselves and the world around them, of their abilities, of the discovery of what they can create and express, of everything that makes them similar and different, of others and the relationships they establish with others. Accept internal and deep relationships by penetrating their intimacy and putting it in relation to the cognitive structures that it already possesses; Approaching the object or content in order to learn it, based on previous experiences, interests and knowledge. Accept internal and deep relationships by penetrating their intimacy and putting it in relation to the cognitive structures that it already possesses; Approaching the object or content in order to learn it, based on previous experiences, interests and knowledge. [1]

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