Gênero no espaço escolar: diferentes, mas não desiguais

Abstract

The present study is inserted in the field of education, and its object of study is the construction of gender in the school space, specifically, in Early Childhood Education. The same, has as a general objective, to analyze the constructions of gender in early childhood education in a school in the city of Mamanguape/PB. And as specific objectives: a) To present a brief outline of the theoretical framework that dialogues on the concepts of gender, school and early childhood education; b) Briefly analyze the space that gender issues occupy in some of the current Brazilian laws that regulate education; c) Analyze how the educators of the referred school deal with gender issues in daily school life. To achieve our goal, we chose to use the qualitative method, given that it has an approach aimed at exploring and understanding the meaning that individuals or groups attribute to a social or human problem (CRESWELL, 2021), and as a research instrument, we used the interview, as it is efficient for data collection. To achieve the proposed objectives, we will discuss in the light of authors, such as: Rauber (2016), Ciribelli (2019), Araújo (2018), Miranda (2019), Junqueira (2012) and the legal documents that guide Early Childhood Education: the Common National Curriculum Base (2017), the Law on Education Guidelines and Bases (1996), the Municipal Education Plan (2015), the Federal Constitution (1988) and the National Education Plan (2014). At the end of our research, we realized that gender issues need and should be discussed more and more so that, based on these discussions, taboos and paradigms imposed by and for society can be broken, and that the creation of educational laws/public policies that address directly this theme are important to support the teaching work.