Gendered Power Relationships: an Influential Factor in First Graders' Collaborative Work
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Power relationships are present in all the contexts of the society and the classroom is not the exception. This issue most of the times does not allow a proper way to learn English and it generates conflicts among students. Also, gender is a determinant matter in those power relationships due to the conflicts are between two groups: boys and girls. This research project is aimed to understand how are gendered power relationships revealed in first graders, through collaborative work in the English lesson taught at a public school in Bogotá with six participants. The data collection instruments were field notes complemented with journals, video recordings and interviews. At the end of the process, data showed that there are two ways in which gendered power relationships are revealed, confrontation between boys predisposition vs. girls desire to control, and changeable attitudes in regards to peers’ group.