ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the intentions, the development, and some of the results from this pilot project, which hopes to become a viable alternative response to the multiplicity of issues facing personnel and teachers in preschools and in their relationships with parents. The educational experience related in this paper is the result of an alternative education project that seeks to eradicate gender inequities between boys and girls within the Mexican public education system. In quantitative terms, according to the 1995–2000 Educational Development Program, school attendance in the five-to-eleven age range was similar between girls and boys, but in the twelve-to-fourteen age range, 1.22 girls did not attend school for every boy that did not attend. Teachers at school find behavior and learning differences between boys and girls to be almost imperceptible. Some examples from our own experiences serve to illustrate those differences by observing boys as they move around the school spaces.
