Towards the Consolidation of the Constitutionality of Single-Sex Education. Concerning the Judgement of Constitutional Court 31/2018

Abstract

Single-sex education is a pedagogical model that has frequently generated multiple controversies regarding its potential discriminatory attitude as well as doubts about whether it helps achieve the full development of the student’s personality, as can be achieved through mixed education, as required by the educational ideology of the constitution. The possibility of private schools that use this model having access to public funding has caused yet more problems. In this document we are going to analyse the regulation of single-sex education, in order to know the legislative situation of this pedagogical model in the first instance, in order to be able to evaluate its adequacy to the constitutional text without constituting a discriminatory attitude towards girls or boys as well as the need of its militant nature in relation to the educational ideology of the constitution, all this closely following the recent ruling of the Constitutional Court that endorses this type of pedagogical model and the financial aid of the public authorities to the centres that have implemented this model due to their own legitimate ideology.

Summary
I. INTRODUCTION. II. REGULATION OF SINGLE-SEX EDUCATION. III. SINGLE-SEX EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL IDEOLOGY OF THE CONSTITUTION AND DISCRIMINATION. 1. Single-sex education, educational ideology of the Constitution. 2. Single-sex education and discrimination. IV. SINGLE-SEX EDUCATION AND PUBLIC FUNDING OF EDUCATION. V. CONCLUSIONS.