Introduction of LGBT diversity through storytelling in the English Primary Classroom

Abstract

The main objective of this end-of-degree project is to demonstrate that LGBT diversitycan be included at Primary Schools, more specifically in EFL as a way of fostering aninclusive education. For achieving this objective, the paper starts by addressing the legalsituation of the inclusion of LGBT diversity in Spanish Primary classrooms andbibliography on its implementation in the Primary education.With this in mind, this dissertation designs a Unit Plan on LGBT diversity, gender rolesand stereotypes and prejudices. This Unit Plan is designed for the EFL classroom, sostudents will learn English while they are taught about the diversity in our world. TheUnit Plan finds in traditional and modern fairy tales a contrast between stereotypes andprejudices and inclusiveness. These tales are introduced through storytelling, which is atool often used in the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). CLT allows thecreation of a communicative environment in class, where the LGBT diversity isintroduced. The main of this process of revision of traditional fairy tales and encounteringnew fairy tales is that students are able to produce an alternative and inclusive ending fora fairy tale of their choice.<br /

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