Boys and girls in the same classroom. Does coeducation promote equality between men and women? Co-education was considered an advance, and even a necessity, at a certain historical moment, in which women had been relegated to the background and our education seemed destined to perpetuate us as a being dependent on men.
In the Second Republic (1931-1936) it was considered necessary, with opposition from the right. The Franco era eradicated it.
But on February 18, 1969, the BOE published a decree from the Ministry of Education and Science that authorized mixed classes in exceptional cases, which during the transition would be the norm.
Controversial topic, pedagogical theories are disparate. Today, differentiated education only occurs in some private and charter schools.
