ESI is (not) talked about: an approach to the representations of Salta teaching from a communication Perspective (2023)

Abstract

The article takes a communication approach to the social representations that circulated and (re)produced by teachers of a school institution in the city of Salta, in relation to Comprehensive Sex Education, during the year 2023. Throught a qualitative approach, present in the application of intentional sampling and a method based on the analysis of socio-semiotic discourse, a corpus composed of nine testimonial sources from secondary education professionals is analyzed. The initial results reveal disparate representative constructions that reproduce sanitary, patriarchal, and religious visions, on the one hand, and visions that incorporate a pluralist and critical approach to inequality in gender relations, on the other. From the consolidated semiotic nuclei emerge sociocultural value systems that intertwine and come into tension at the local level, producing a partial treatment of specific program contents.