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This paper reports an analysis of the building of gender awareness through a pedagogical intervention on men and also masculinities from a genderbased perspective in educational spaces in Guadalajara, Mexico. The work is resultant from the recollection of experiences of a workshop performed with four different groups composed of men and women. The outcomes show the way in which all the participants reflect and dialogue about the meanings, practices, identifications and gender relations of men. Based on the theoretical contributions from constructivism in education and gender studies on men, it is advocated the notion of "building gender awareness" as a proposal of a theoretical and political category to understand the process of reflexivity. The people participating in this process, through reflection of the personal experience and collective dialogue, were able to identify various problematic gender practices among men such as violence, risk behaviors and lack of co-responsibility at home, school, work, as well as in the exercise of sexuality and affective relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the importance of considering "gender regimes" as strategic enclaves in the processes of mainstreaming comprehensive sex education policies in high school. The analysis is based on a diverse set of empirical data constructed in an ethnographic investigation carried out between 2017 and 2018 in a high school in Gran La Plata, Argentina. From the description of a gender regime called "virile" and within the framework of an institutional culture characterized as "normative", the paper reveals some limitations of a way of mainstreaming comprehensive sex education that here is called "curricular" and it offers some clues to consider in which ways an approach that considers the totality of institutional dynamics in their pedagogical dimension could enhance the scope of a policy aimed at combating gender inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic and particularly, mitigation measures taken by government institutions in Mexico, such as the closure of all schools at all levels of education, have brought strong regressive consequences in terms of both education and gender equality. In this paper, we start from a theoretical framework of gender and family to analyze, along with the negative repercussions of this measure (especially for women and children), an embodied experience of upbringing and community education in Mexico. This experience seeks to preserve educational and labor rights violated by school closures such as sociability, guardianship and custody of minors, the right to a life free of violence, work-life balance, among others. Our aim is to suggest some keys for an ecofeminist and community solution to the education crisis in this country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]