Constitution and sex-differentiated education: where we come from and where we are

Abstract

The tensions inherent in educational rights have occupied a prominent place on the discursive stage since the ratification of our fundamental norm. These tensions have given rise to heated and rich debates, whose persistence and dynamism in contemporary discourses continue to amaze us. One of the issues that continues to shake the foundations of article 27 of our Constitution is the question of gender-differentiated education. A pedagogical model which, although it seems to find shelter in the freedom of education, raises suspicions as to its possible clash with other constitutional mandates, including the right to education itself. An educational model that barely aroused interest in the first years of the democratic experience, but in which, since the entry into force of Organic Law 2/2006, of 3 May, on Education, the political powers seem to have found a new object to fuel the already charged confrontation in the field of education. A confrontation that, in the light of recent events, promises to remain.