Gênero na Educação Infantil: mediações docentes

Abstract

This work of course completion presents reflections on Education, Early Childhood Education and Gender. It is the result of a qualitative research. The research was carried out in the form of a semi-structured interview. Six teachers from a Municipal School of Santa Maria were interviewed. The main objective of the research was to understand how gender issues in the school environment are mediated with the children of Early Childhood Education. In this sense, among the six teachers interviewed, five mentioned that their conceptions about the word gender suggest a biological issue. In this way, with the analysis of interview data, we can conclude that the interviewed teachers have conceptual confusion about gender issues and that they are in a process of building knowledge on this subject. However, teachers develop mediations with their children when issues of gender arise in their daily lives. These mediations are carried out through dialogue aimed at deconstructing the stereotypes that society creates regarding situations involving gender issues. One of the teachers interviewed mentioned that she uses situations regarding colors, dolls and toys, because these are situations and objects of their daily lives. And through the children she mediates so that they deconstruct these stereotypes. We can conclude with this reflection the need for mediation by the teachers when there are manifestations of stereotypes about gender issues.