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Research lines

 
  • Studies on diversity and their link with the educational world. LGTBIQ studies and their link with the educational world, Queer and Crip theories and their educational implications, the changes in recent years and the latest research on these issues in the international academic sphere. It also explores the changes introduced by equality laws and their consequences in schools, and the ideas and beliefs of lecturers and university students about diversity in the classroom.
  • Diversity in classroom materials, spaces and activities: didactic proposals. Proposals linked to the presence of diversity in classrooms at various educational levels: classroom materials, treatment of spaces, textbooks and other school materials in relation to the presence and approach to affective-sexual diversity and gender identity, as well as the body and non-normative bodies. Studies on the references (literary, audiovisual...) of students when it comes to knowing and understanding the world, and the presence and approach to diversity in these contexts.
  • Intersectionalities. LGTBIQ diversity and other diversities. Research on the intersectionalities between LGTBIQ diversity and other factors such as social class, exclusion, gender, ethnicity, culture, migration and functional diversity. This line of work addresses the complexity of bodies and lives from an intersectional perspective, that is, from the idea that we are influenced by diverse identities that shape and define us, and from the importance of this issue when addressing diversity in the classroom.