Nísia Floresta: a voice for the recognition of women in the history of the curriculum

• Autor(a) principal: Peralta, Deise Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Zetetiké (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/zetetike/article/view/8667895
• topic: Curriculum; Mathematics education; Critical theory; Seyla Benhabib; Feminism; Currículo; Educação matemática; Teoria crítica; Seyla Benhabib; Feminismo

In this text I discuss the dilemma experienced by the educator Nísia Floresta, in the face of public attacks suffered, due to her curricular proposal for the education of women in the 19th century. The article illustrates how, historically, women have suffered from androcentric attacks in unfair and unequal social settings in the struggle to learn and teach mathematics. To this end, in structural terms, after a brief introduction on the adequacy of the feminist debate to curriculum studies, there follows a discussion on the history of the curriculum, and a section that analyzes newspaper publications with an aggressive and defamatory content about Nísia Floresta. In methodological terms, based on a survey in the digital files of the National Library of Rio de Janeiro, excerpts from texts published in the Jornal O Mercantil were analyzed, reporting on the educator's achievements, based on the concept of “recognition” of the feminist philosopher Seyla Benhabib.