Educação infantil, espaços de confronto e convívio com as diferenças: análise das interações entre professoras e meninas e meninos que transgridem as fronteiras de gênero / Early childhood education, spaces of confrontation and familiarization with differences: analysis of interactions between teachers and girls and boys who transgress the gender boundaries

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This thesis presents the study of gender in a municipal school of Early Childhood Education (Emei). Conducted in the city of São Paulo, the objective of the study was to analyse the interactions between teachers and children and, in special, observe and interpret the children that, to crossing the line of the patterns imposed on them, transgress the gender limits, giving new meaning and structure to their social practices. This ethnographic research is qualitative, it investigates four groups of children (aged 3 to 6 years) and their teachers; to do this, field records and interviews were used. We investigate the basis of the knowledge used by teachers to deal with conflicts and gender issues in childhood; the explanation of these differences are based on biology, genetics, and in the understanding of children gender identity as static and universal. The results point to existence of practices and strategies, for time and space organization, characterized by a heteronormativity discipline control, regulation and standardization of bodies and desires. This thesis figured out a pedagogic intention in the usage of sex as criteria for time and space control. However, despite the forms of control, the power of the teachers on girls and boys is not universal, neither one-way relationship; the process of socialization does not happen passively. Girls and boys find gaps in the management policy and, smartly, create strategies to achieve their desires and wills. Several factors as, for example, the different possibilities for collective participation in preschool, imagination, the freedom during the play time, easy sociability and desire for friendships, especially in times and spaces with less control of adults, creates a condition to get around the proposed structures, bypassing them, and always starting a new movement into transgression zones. The research also reveals that the preschool is an special place and time for found, facing and living with difference and diversity; the plenty of possibilities of production, reproduction and resistance to gender discrimination interact in a complex way, bringing us many education challenges. This research, aware of the importance of gender issues, claims that is immediately needed to include new rights of children in the public policies for early childhood education.

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gender relations childhood infância pré-escola diversity sociologia da infância difference preschool diversidade relações de gênero early childhood education sociology of childhood educação infantil

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