Representaciones sociales de diversidad sexual en un grupo de niñas y niños de grado quinto

Abstract

How do girls and boys represent sexual diversity? What do their voices express when listened to with respect and without prejudice? This research emerges from those questions and from the desire to understand how social representations of sexual diversity are configured in a group of fifth-grade students at an educational institution in Bogotá. Using a qualitative approach and the hermeneutic-interpretative method, in-depth interviews and iconographic analysis were conducted to explore three dimensions: the concept, the attitude, and the image they have about sexually diverse people. Through their drawings, words, and silences, visions of empathy, resistance, tenderness, and tension emerge regarding the recognition of diversity, influenced by historical, institutional, and adult-centered discourses that still persist. This study does not seek to speak for them, but to amplify their voices through an audiovisual product that reveals how they construct their social representations. The findings reveal childhoods with critical, conscious, and open thinking, capable of questioning norms, embracing differences, and demanding respect. This thesis is also a political act: an invitation to place childhood at the center of the social conversation on diversity and to recognize, in their gaze, the possibility of a more just world.