exercise that proposes a controversy about the "colonial difference" that still persists today. There is likewise awareness among teachers of a lack of methodological strategies to break down the prejudices and stereotypes that exist in their classrooms. It also highlights the need to raise awareness in the classroom about this danger, which is at the root of the principles of acceptance and multiculturalism on which Europe is founded.

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Although gender-role stereotypes in children’s literature have been widely explored, the study of the role of mothers and their representation in picturebooks has not received much attention from the academic world, especially as far as Spain is concerned. This paper analyses a sample of seven picturebooks published in Spain over the last 7 years -all by awarded authors and widely reviewed in some of the most popular Spanish blogs on Children’s and Youth Literature (CYL)-and focused on the maternal figure. It aims to provide a panoramic view of the representations of the role of the mother as a paradigm of the changes seen in Spanish society, studying the representation of her voice, emotions, and ties to other members of her family through a systemic functional-multimodal discourse analysis applied to picturebooks. The results reveal that, for the first time, the mother’s voice and her right to explore her own feelings are included in her characterisation, and also, that her relationship with the rest of the family includes different aspects—children, society, work, partner, and self-care. In conclusion, the conception of motherhood as proposed to Spanish families through picturebooks seems to be finally changing, evolving from fixed stereotypes and allowing the expression of contradictory feelings related to maternity.

La novela dominicana de la dictadura, muy poco conocida fuera de las fronteras del país caribeño, se ha caracterizado en los últimos años por el espacio nuevo que ha sabido dar a los personajes femeninos en su reescritura ficcional de la Era de Trujillo. La balada de Alfonsina Bairán de Andrés L. Mateo es, sin duda, una de las obras más significativas en este sentido.

La metodología consiste en un acercamiento a través de la observación y el análisis de 275 diarios de aprendizaje y de los productos generados por el alumnado. Los datos se analizan bajo la óptica de los Nuevos Estudios de Literacidad, desde una perspectiva artística y colaborativa. Los resultados muestran cómo la inclusión de esta práctica letrada motiva nuevas formas de entender la lectura y la escritura que repercuten en la posición del alumnado en el acto alfabetizador y en la disolución de la división entre alta cultura y cultura vernácula. Destaca además la importancia de las didácticas específicas en las investigaciones sobre alfabetizaciones.