The school should be a place of dialogue, listening and understanding, and on many occasions children are infantilized, believing that they cannot or should not deal with certain topics or aspects are taken for granted, so that we do not ask questions or take an interest in their tastes or interests.
One form of this is “Waltdisneyzation” whereby adults believe it is convenient for children not to have information about social inequalities and injustices, keeping them in a kind of artificial limbo.
History is imparted through drawings, fantastic creatures or unreal characters, so they have a reduced and false conception of the world that enhances a conservative, classist, sexist and racist leisure culture.
The tourist curriculum is a type of infantilization that takes place in schools by teachers. In this case, it happens when the study of social groups is carried out withgreat superficiality and banality. Minority cultures are represented in books with similarities to cartoons or comicbooks, making them strange and unreal.
References
Torres Santomé, J. (2008). Diversidad cultural y contenidos escolares. Revista de educación, 345, 83-110.
Authorship
María Ateca Beti, 2020.