Gender relations in the classroom: memories of youth and adults

• Autor(a) principal: Souza de Menezes, Cristiane
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Machado Fiuza Fialho, Lia, dos Santos Machado, Charliton José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Retratos da Escola (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://retratosdaescola.emnuvens.com.br/rde/article/view/1511
• topic: Relações de Gênero; História Cultural; História Oral; Educação de Jovens e Adultos; Relaciones de Género; Historia Cultural; Historia Oral; Educación de Jóvenes y Adultos; Gender Relation; Cultural History; Oral history; Youth and Adult Education

This article analyzes gender relations in the daily life of schools in Paraíba from the memories of the schooling of boys and men enrolled in classes of Youth and Adult Education. Based on Cultural History and, more specifically, on gender studies, the research uses the thematic Oral History methodology, with interviews with ten male students from public schools located in João Pessoa, Paraíba. The results indicate that, although gender relations have undergone profound changes in recent decades, students' memories of their schooling process between the 1950s and the 2000s reveal, within schools, a conception that there was a supposed different “nature” for the sexes, which determined different behavior for men and women. The opinion prevailed those boys would be more prone to mess, while girls would be more dedicated to studies, thus, it is concluded that this perception contributes to the maintenance of the demarcation of borders between the feminine and the masculine in the school routine.