Basic education teachers and their perceptions about gender

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Igor Leite
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Vanda Mendes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista @mbienteeducação
• Texto Completo: https://publicacoes.unicid.edu.br/index.php/ambienteeducacao/article/view/1136
• topic: Educação básica; Gênero; Docentes; Basic education; Gender; Teachers; Educación básica; Género; Docentes

This article aims to discuss the perceptions that teachers at a public school in the State of São Paulo have about gender issues. From the reading of references in gender and education, it was noticed that society has different expectations regarding the roles that men and women should play, and that them can be bullied when they move from the expected performances. In this research, it was used a focus group, the literature on gender and gender and diversity at school, as well as dialectical hermeneutics as a perspective for data interpretation. It was concluded that most of the teachers conceive gender as a biological characteristic and that the teachers themselves like to discuss the subject. Also, that there are ambivalent positions moving between traditional understandings about behavioral expectations for men and women. The presence of subjects who question the naturalization of differences considered traditional is evident: the younger teachers, with graduate degrees, tended to legitimize more flexible forms of performance and to recognize more emphatically the importance of greater gender equality.