Professores homens: por uma ressignificação da docência nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

This dissertation is part of Schooling Practices and Public Policies Research line in the Post-Graduation in Education program at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. The main goal of this work is to comprehend to which extent gender represantations affect images and receptiveness of male teachers in first years of elementary school. Five teachers who studied Pedagogy at UFSM beteween 1984 and 2012 were interviewed; a history about men insertion in pedagogy course was made aiming to understand the motivations that led the interviewees persuing this course. The knowlodge about the undergraduation course is highly relevant, therefore a research was conducted on this matter. As well as a history of feminist movements and gender studies was conducted. Based on these, masculinity and male identity as social constructions was discussed. Developing the study, with regard to the methodology, a case study a long with the quantitative and qualitative researches and themed oral history was developed. The theoretical and methodological framework include authors: Blonde (1990, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2009), Badinter (1993), Connell (1995), Scott (1990), Tambara (1998), Oliveira (2004 ), Rabelo (2008, 2009, 2010) and Meihy (1995). From this study, we noticed that teachers‟ narratives motivations that led them to join the Pedagogy course, have different causes, mainly it was the achievement of contacting learners during the learning process, and not expressing the will of dropping course or profession. The narratives showed that the position of the family is important in the choice of profession, but does not constitute a determining factor, since even with the questioning and the initial resistance by relatives, these teachers chose to continue the course and follow the profession. Also demonstrated that the choice of being a teacher overcomes the initial resistance established between the school community, in particular other teachers and students‟ parents. Since they reported that there is a certain estrangement from parents and teachers at the beginning, when faced with a man teacher teaching in Early Years. Thus, we were able to verify that there is still resistance traits on the presence of the teacher in the first years. What remains is the object of analysis of this study deserve attention in order to produce more studies on the subject, that the pedagogical practices of male teachers in a school setting under-analyzed, visualized and be questioned, and from these discussions the images of teachers and their acceptability to say that this place can be re-signified.